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🕯️📿THE IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS🙏🕯️
For one week from mid-October each year Tōrin-in (東林院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji, illuminates its main garden with 800 candles.
The "Bontō no akari ni shitashimu-kai" (梵燈のあかりに親しむ会) is intended as an elegant form of prayer. -
In part thanks to the current head, Nishikawa Genbō (西川玄房 *somewhat of a celebrity in his own right*), Tōrin-in has become well known for its (vegetarian) 'devotional cuisine'.
Fresh vegetables are grown behind the temple, and classes are held each Tuesday.
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🕯️📿THE IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS🙏🕯️
For one week from mid-October each year Tōrin-in (東林院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji, illuminates its main garden with 800 candles.
The "Bontō no akari ni shitashimu-kai" (梵燈のあかりに親しむ会) is intended as an elegant form of prayer.
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Lined up along the length of the temple veranda were thousands of tiny pieces of sliced daikon radishes, drying in the cold winter air😮
Despite the recent rain and snow, winter in Kyōto is a bone-chillingly dry affair.