layers of observation
By: Ox Herder
Tags: Buddhism, Buddhist photography, dhamma, light, photography, pilgrimage, travel, travel photography
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Aloka Lekhana
The word “photography” is based on the Greek φῶς (photos) “light” and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”.
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I found this such a wonderful expression, drawing with light, that I translated it into Pali, Aloka Lekhana.
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Not only does Aloka mean light, but it also means to shed light, illuminate, and yet another meaning is to see.
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May these drawings of light illuminate your sight!
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slides
- Monsson Meditation/Sankicca
- Bangkok Chinatown
- What did you learn in school today?
- age & youth
- making papaya salad
- Phoenix cloud
- Siamese twins
- roof tiles at Wat Pho, Bangkok
- Main shrine at YakCheonSa
- shopping for amulets
- Light burst over Wat Intharawihan
- Great Unification Buddha at Sinheungsa
- Avalokitesvara, looking out from the Bayon
- Lotus lanterns lit on the eves on BongEunSa Dharma Hall
- working the rice terraces in Tegallalang, Bali
- rice terraces in Tegallalang, Bali
- shepard in Hampi
- puppets for sale in Kochi
- Mr. Tea Pot Head
- diner in Hampi Bazaar
- Myna bird in Mcleod Ganj
- archway at Borobudur
- 108 Gwan Sae Um Bosali
- entrance to GwanSaeUm Temple
- moon setting over the Thar desert
- the great wall of Haeinsa
- cherry blossoms in sepia
- rooftop tiles, a canopy of refuge
- DongHwaSa Dae Ung Jeon, in the mist
- BongEunSa Mireuk, overlooking COEX
- Sun mudra
- Eunjin Mireuk at Gwanchoksa
- Tapsa in the rain
- Main Dharma Hall, Hanmaum Zen Center
- donations
- white heron
- Moon over Buddha
- entering Longshan Temple, Taipei
- in front of Longshan Temple, Taipei
- elephant supporting the roof, Taiwan
- dragon on the eave of a temple, Taiwan
- caterpillar, warm in the sun
- incense burning at the Chinan Temple, Taiwan
- clouds in a lotus pond
- behind the Bayon, Buddha and monks
- monk drumming before evening Yebul
- pickled radish at the market, sitting in the sun
- Homigot, Korea’s eastern-most point
- small temple in YeonHo-dong, Daegu
- standing Buddha at DongHwaSa, the Temple of Paulownia Blossoms
- Yeon Ju Dae 2
- Yeon Ju Dae 1
- calf by the Burning Ghats, Varanasi
- cow in the window
- third eye graffiti
- a group of Sadu, Varanasi
- puja ceremony, Varanasi
- sunrise over the Ganges
- snake charmer in Varanasi
- dusk on the Ganges
- men at the evening puja, Varanasi
- clay diyas at evening puja, Varanasi, India
- sitar performance on the Ganges
- man reading in Varanasi
- afternoon shower in Bangkok
- stop for tea
- Top Station, Munnar
- Temple of a former Heaven
- Sunrise over the ruins of Vijayanagara
- bell and vajra
- early bird
- May your Buddha Nature always shine through!
- a small butter lamp at the Katakali performance
- blurred by dual vision
- temple guard
- along the wall of Virupaksha Temple, just after sunset
- Shakyamuni’s hand (inverted)
- Shakyamuni’s hand
- inside the Virupaksha Temple
- That Dam, Vientiane
- Buddha in a stupa
- a Buddha among Buddhas
- a wall of Buddhas
- backwater boats
- maneuvering the backwaters
- drawing Bodhisattva in the sand
- Lions in the Bayon
- temple statue in Vientiane, Laos
- grazing in front of Angkor Wat
- youth and wisdom
- elegant touch of compassion
- Holy Cows and Holy Babies
- temple ruins of Ayutaya
- prayer flags in the wind, above the stupa of the Monkey Temple
- yong duam, dragon head rock
- beneath the eves of a Tibetan temple, McLeod Ganj
- prayer flags around the trunk of a Bodhi tree, Lumbini
- the Dhamma of light and water, Kerela Backwaters
- a small offering…
- character from a Katakali performance in Kochi, Kerela
- a rainy Buddha’s birthday, Gwanchoksa Temple, Korea
- wood carving at Wat Si Saket, Laos
- at the Palace of Shining Happiness
- rapeseed crop, Kushinagar
- Burmese stupa, Kushinagar
- Parinirvana Temple, Kushinagar
- Bhikkhu at the Parinirvana Temple, Kushinagar
- storm over Prambanan, Yogyakarta
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