Saturday, May 22, 2010

Arankele

Arankele is a meditation monastery. A new monastery to the front of the site has about 30 monks. This ancient cave shrine is still in use.


The walkway from the cave shrine runs about 300 meters to the main monastic complex. A great place for walking meditation.


The large tank which once supplied bathing and drinking water for the monastics is still full of water, but  is now full of water grass and purple lotus.


Something I haven't seen in other temple ruins, this building had a long narrow runway in the middle of it which made me think of walking meditation.

2 comments:

  1. Particularly nice imagery in this posting; thank you for sharing your journey.

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  2. You should try to come to Asia some time in life if you haven't been, James. It is a great place for folks serious about their photography.

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