Saturday, February 4, 2017

Photos from the Tipitaka Mahagandayone Monastery

The upper part of the monastery gate


Stray dog in the monastery

Our food servers

The bowls of rice

First contact

A flock of monks (a herd of monks)?


Small bowl of rice into bigger bowl.


A novice monk at the end of the line.

The Dining Hall

The food is better than the old Marriot (Mary-rot)
food service at American University in the 1980s!

I don't scream, you don't scream,
we all don't scream for ice cream
(vow of silence, you know!) 

Novice monks

No utensils needed for this monk -- his 
hands/fingers were sufficient for eating.

The stray dog strut

Our lunch mirrored their lunch.  Most of us
enjoyed most of the food.

Ye Ye tells us what we are eating. 
I promptly forget what is what.

The head monk got his position by surprise
wins in the Electoral College. Don't trust
the polls -- they were rigged!

Staffers from Team Ye Ye

The novices

The water ceremony: part of the blessing from the monk.
As you slowly poured the water into the cup, the
cup signified the monastery and the water represented
our donation/good will to the monastery.

Monk dorms with drying laundry.

Our heroes at the gate
of the monastery.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Enjoying living vicariously

Unknown said...

So were the 280 monks all silent eating their bowls of rice?