Showing posts with label mendicant monk. Show all posts
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Mendicant monk

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I saw this mendicant monk in front of a shopping mall in Hiroshima.

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I believe he is of the Nichiren sect of Japanese Buddhism.

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I was intrigued by the interaction, and non-reaction, between him and the passers-by.

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Older peopled tended to bow as they passed him. Older people tend to bow when they pass a Jizo statue or a shrine entrance.

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The Japanese, more perhaps than any other people, have developed the art of not seeing what makes them uncomfortable to a high art.

Homeless people, concrete mountains and foreigners are among the things often invisible.