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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.
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I love this thread!
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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.
Thanks! :)
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TheDhamma wrote: Santeri,
Nice mix of statues and ajahns!
Thank you!

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.

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Jechbi wrote:
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.
Can you post of a pix?
(Of the painting.)
(Or your grandma, either way.)
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Very nice, David!
“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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here is my shrine now
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Greetings and Blessings,

Here is my little shrine area. I took a closet area, removed the doors.

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Hi All

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Great photos, gentlemen!
“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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Ben wrote:Great photos, gentlemen!
I agree, excellent photos and shrines! Manapa, it looks like you have almost the entire Nikayas collection there.

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awesome! whered you get that baby buddha? i so want one of those
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jcsuperstar wrote:awesome! whered you get that baby buddha? i so want one of those
I got it from the Thai Temple in Lumbini, Nepal.

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David N. Snyder wrote:
Ben wrote:Great photos, gentlemen!
I agree, excellent photos and shrines! Manapa, it looks like you have almost the entire Nikayas collection there.

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Almost if it isn't their it is on my computer
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But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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