Taiwan VI: 吉安慶修院

After napping enough for the morning, we visited 吉安慶修院, a Buddhist temple built by the Japanese during their occupation of Taiwan. Unlike Chinese-built temples which are painted in bright auspicious colours and decorated with gold and bronze, this temple gave a very zen feel with its wooden earthly colours..


Statue of a bodhisattva


Wishes are written on wooden tags and put in front of the appropriate bodhisattva


Another statue...


The same statue from a different angle


An un-bloomed water lily in the pond at the temple

One Within the Other

Matryoshka doll or Russian nested doll

Macro Tryout

Got to borrow Ivy's Nikkor AFS 60mm/f2.8 macro lens for the week. Just trying out on random items on my desk.