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As amusing as it is somewhat bizarre,\u00a0many temple devotees in China\u00a0like to deposit their cash donations\u00a0in the meditative mudras (sacred hand gestures) of images of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.\u00a0Some would go around with small denominations\u00a0to put the money at every image encountered in a temple.\u00a0Maybe this is the Chinese ‘give red packets’ mentality of courtesy?<\/p>\n
I wonder what goes on in their minds.\u00a0Are they generously ‘tipping’ the enlightened for their jobs well done, or donating to the temple,\u00a0or are trying to ‘bribe’ for worldly favours, or to redeem some misgivings, or… ? Anyway, the images smile on gently, indifferent to the cash at hand, neither clutching nor pocketing the money…<\/p>\n
Yes, the monks-in-charge come along regularly to remove the money. With many popular temples looking busy with the coming and going of many devotees, many still look dilapidated, some with what seems to be slow or stalled renovation and expansion works. I sincerely hope the money is put to good use to further propagate the priceless Dharma… more speedily and effectively.<\/p>\n
Next China Adventure: https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/06\/china-adventures-3-mountain-on-mountain<\/a><\/span> As amusing as it is somewhat bizarre,\u00a0many temple devotees in China\u00a0like to deposit their cash donations\u00a0in the meditative mudras (sacred…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,38],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photojournal","category-travelogue","tag-generosity","wpcat-341-id","wpcat-38-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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