Sunday, September 20, 2009

TOKYO BUDDIST TEMPLE, KAMAKURA

PHOTO DESCRIPTION :
THE JAPANESE SCIENTIST SITTING AT THE CENTRE HAS MADE RADIATION MEASUREMENTS AT THE ATOM BOMB SITE ON 8TH AUGUST 1945, THAT IS JUST TWO DAYS AFTER THE ATOM BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA BY THE USA IN SECOND WORLD WAR. HIS NAME IS SHIGEYOSHI MATSUMAE, LIVED UPTO 1995. i AM (HOLDING INDIA TRICOLOR FLAG) IS FORTUNATE TO SPEAK TO MATSUMAE SAN. MATSUMAE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF JAPANESE DICTATOR MR.TOJO. MATSUMAE ADVISED THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO INDULGE IN WAR SO, TOJO HAS ORDERED REMOVAL OF MATSUMAE FROM HIS POST OF DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND SEND HIM TO THE WAR FRONT AS A PRIVATE SOLDER



AMAZING TEMPLES AND HISTORICAL SITES. ONE WILL UNDERGO THE FEELING OF ONENESS WITH THE LORD AS WE PRAY TO THE LORD TO BLESS ONE AND ALL WITH DEVOTION IN EVERY TEMPLE FOR DARSHAN.

During my six months stay in Tokyo Japan, (Sept 1986 to Mar 1987) I visited Kamakura Buddist temple. As we got down the train and came out of th rliway station one young Japanese girl came to us (I was with one Indian student who used to reside in the same Intenational Guest House, where I stayed). She politely requested us that she be allowed to speak to us as a guide. When I asked how much we have to pay, she told that she is interested to improve her English talking and for reason she is trying to guide us. Very True as she has shown us the Kamakura Buddist temple of course, she was finding some diffculty in speaking to us in English, however, she is successful in making us understand.

Kamakura is a city located next to Yokohama. Kamakura is well known as one of ancient cities in Japan. Kamakura was used to be the capital of Japan around 1200 A.D
The temple has big a big Buddha statue and incense sticks are always burning in fornt of the temple.
There are three floors inside the statue and we have climbed up into the top Head portion.

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