Posted by sigismund on July 20, 2010, at 15:27:38
In reply to Re: matcha » sigismund, posted by janejane on July 20, 2010, at 9:46:59
>Were you exposed to that when you visited Japan?
No, but it would have been easy enough since we were mainly in Kyoto.
The other day in a place called Changu Narayan
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WQ1K_t-fjzs/SHIDo4sMh7I/AAAAAAAAAjA/hI63XN5taqA/s400/Changu_Narayan_Temple_Door.jpg
I was sitting up in a restaurant like this, looking out
http://bluedandelion.net/viit/kathm_valley/IMGP2498.jpg
and this man I couldn't place came in and we started to talk. He was a second generation Japanese American who lived half the time in India where he was looking at temples with an interest in Tantric Hinduism, so he was walking from temple to temple, staying wherever he could. How cool is that?
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