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your home altar/shrine
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I love the multi-levels. It's awesomeSanteri wrote:
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Who is the rupa in white porcelaine Santeri ?
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ajahn toh
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the mountain may be heavy in and of itself, but if you're not trying to carry it it's not heavy to you- Ajaan Suwat
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An ajahn with his own rupa, I assume he must be pretty famous. Who was he?jcsuperstar wrote:ajahn toh
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Sure, no problem, but it won't be for another couple of weeks when I am back at my Las Vegas home.Jechbi wrote:Can you post of a pix?TheDhamma wrote:I had one of those too (a Jewish grandmother) and she had an antique painting of a Buddha. After she passed, everyone in the family agreed to give that to me and it is one of my most prized possessions, being an image of the Buddha and a family heirloom all-in-one.
(Of the painting.)
(Or your grandma, either way.)
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I think it is this ajahn:TheDhamma wrote:An ajahn with his own rupa, I assume he must be pretty famous. Who was he?jcsuperstar wrote:ajahn toh
http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Somdej_Toh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I didn't recognize the name at first.
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I think so. This is an image you'll often see:
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He is extremely revered. We have a life-size statue of him in a shrine in the garden of our Wat...
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He is extremely revered. We have a life-size statue of him in a shrine in the garden of our Wat...
Mike
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Thank you.jcsuperstar wrote:ajahn toh
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Gabe,
Nice use of the mirror!
Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
Ngawang Dorlma,
Nice set-up! i like the little offering bowls. I remember those from the altars at Shambhala Mountain and I usually have some set-up at my altar too.
Nice use of the mirror!
Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
Ngawang Dorlma,
Nice set-up! i like the little offering bowls. I remember those from the altars at Shambhala Mountain and I usually have some set-up at my altar too.
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I love this thread!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
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Thanks!TheDhamma wrote: Ngawang Dorlma,
Nice set-up! i like the little offering bowls. I remember those from the altars at Shambhala Mountain and I usually have some set-up at my altar too.
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Thank you!TheDhamma wrote: Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
The statue is indeed Phra Ajahn Somdet Toh. I got it from one of he's monasteries in Bangkok before I returned to Finland. There are a lot of stories about Somdet Toh, some of them I can't understand. Nevertheless he was a great monk and very popular among the thais. Some people say he was a bodhisatta, some even say he was a emanation of Metteya, but I can't understand what this means.
Legends of Somdet Toh
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Jechbi wrote:Can you post of a pix?TheDhamma wrote:I had one of those too (a Jewish grandmother) and she had an antique painting of a Buddha. After she passed, everyone in the family agreed to give that to me and it is one of my most prized possessions, being an image of the Buddha and a family heirloom all-in-one.
(Of the painting.)
(Or your grandma, either way.)