One may wonder why I so often publish pictures of temples. Since there are - in the truest sense of the word - "many" reasons.
in Taiwan can be found at nearly every corner of two things: first, an Convienience stores like 7 / 11, now where you round the clock not only the most important things for everyday worldly needs, but also like his parking ticket, invoices, traffic fines can also reserve and pay taxes, or theater tickets.
For the daily spiritual needs are the temples. Taiwan has an ancient temple tradition, there are Taoist, Buddhist, Temple confuzianische ( photo gallery here ), in part, the directions within a system is well mixed. Some temples are havens of tranquility (Confuziustempel), the other is loud, alive and populated almost around the clock. It is interesting to observe the rituals, but they are rarely as extreme as the devil rushes Reiber, which I introduced last week.
visited a few days ago I once again my favorite temple, the Lungshan (Dragon Mountain) Temple in Taipei. I was accompanied by 5 women (one Dutch, English, Australian, Canadian and American) of my photography course. After many hours earlier theory was that day live on the photography curriculum. At the same time I wanted to try on my camera, a new, very fast lens. Ideal for low light conditions. Those interested in this subject, click here . There are also many more photos that I made that day.
The picture below shows a Pot with about 100 wooden rods. After the prayer is drawn at random one, it is hidden down a number. At any point there is a text that is either from experience or may already know it can be printed in the temple office. The text should be an answer to the question that was previously placed in silent prayer.
Although most of the temples are very colorful, I have chosen for this series of photos black and white. I am of the opinion that the photos are so meaningful and the view is better directed to the important details. The Taiwanese do not like it so much. Black and white are more colors of mourning. Much rather have you the red and in general all the bright colors that stand for joy and happiness.
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