Hindu Temple Experience

[Iconised Ghost]

yup and when they are done they destroy it. I saw them making it, it must take years and years to master it, the detail is incredible and one false move >.<  

[Midori Hayashi]

Iconised Ghost

yup and when they are done they destroy it. I saw them making it, it must take years and years to master it, the detail is incredible and one false move >.<

One false move...

CAPLOOEY!  

[Artanus]

I believe the sand pictures are called mandalas.

They pour the sand on through tubes, that they rub with a stick. The vibrations make the sand slip out.  

[Iconised Ghost]

yeah that sounds about right. Thats what it looked like when i saw it. I wonder what they do with the sand though? I assume they use it again, but how do they reseperate the colours?  

[Officer Hot-Pants]

Midori Hayashi

Before I go on, I would just like to say that I respect the every culture, and in no way am I trying to offend anybody. Please don't take my opinions personally. Ok? Ok. heart

Why should anybody be offended? You thought a intricately carved temple wrought entirely of marble and gold was beautiful. Who wouldn't?

Taking another's honest opinion as a personal assault only makes you look a bit foolish and, if that opinion happened to be that you were somehow inferior, you've only reinforced that opinion. Now, if you'd said something like "Some dot-heads built one of there heathen prayer-centers in our pure town" I think we can all agree we'd have all sworn we'd audibly heard your I.Q. plummeting to the ground.

Keeping in mind that I am aware that Hinduism is Indian, I liken it to this;

Asian culture was relatively sepperate from outside influence for about 1000+ years. As such, we see religion, architecture, secular culture, and even martial form and weaponcraft different from all the rest of the world...

Now, indiana culture was not quite so isolationist, but it is still relatively mis-or-not understood by outsiders, and so we cannot help but be drawn to such an exotic thing.  

[Hanku Royiaki]

Hindu's I'll tell ya are amazing people. I'd love to see a Hindu temple and I'm glad to see there's one here in the US, but maybe I'll go the Far East to see another one. XD