These photos are from my first visit to the temple, were I met up with Tony who help establish the temple in Runcorn he took me on a tour of the temple and gave me some interesting information about the temple and the items that are found inside. Afterward the monks were given their offerings which was followed by chanting. This was quite interesting at I have never really experience anything like that be for and it gave me some insight to what the monks do on a daily basis. Later I was invited to the evening chanting and meditation session the session.
The contact sheets contain the photos that I took from this visit some of the photos are darker as the room is poorly light for the meditation.
I found the most interesting part of the photographs was the photo of one of the monks on his laptop with smile on his face. What I didn't get to photograph was the monk who was leading the chanting got up in the middle of it and started to take some photographs. One thing that I learnt from this visit is that woman are not allowed to touch the monks I was told this as I went to shake hands with one of the monks instead I put my hands together and bowed my head.
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