fahim mohammed
Well-known member
Thanks for looking.
Fahim,
1. Did you manage to understand the nature and form of the prayer and ritual? ...No
2. Are there any commonalities you can see with Judeo-Christian-Islamic services with a preacher and a holy book and psalms?
Are all the monks essentially doing the same thing of is there a leader and they respond to what he chants
3. Does a senior monk come out and talk for 20-40 minutes and give a sermon?...Don't know
4. Did you manage to find out the values associated with the items photographed, the shell, decorated picture, brass (bell or incense holder). The grasping of the rob? Is that prior to kissing the text via first kissing the cloth?
...The seashell is associated with Vishnu and the one with clockwise spirals is more sacred. The decorations are generally variations/combinations of the 8 major symbols in Buddhism. The bell, in various forms, is to announce that a sacred ceremony is in place and to ward off evil. I do not know the significance, if any, of the grasping of the robe.
The colors, ambience, the general low lighting, quiet, the prayer flags, and the various symbols have
a relationship to Hinduism.
The one thing that leapt out at me was..cleanliness. The monks were very polite but reserved.
4.I wish you could have taken video too!....Me too!
Asher
5.Any wider shots too?.....Shall search, but doubt it.
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As far as re-logging in, I wonder why that is? Could you help define the issue and let's get it remedied.
Asher
It sounds like your browser is losing the cookie which contains your login credentials. When you login, do you check the tick box which says "Remember me on this computer"? If not, then a session cookie is used which gets lost the next time you connect to the OPF server. If you have an unstable internet connection which causes a drop while you are online, the browser will reconnect to the server but having lost the cookie, it will ask you to login again. That's what I can guess looking at the situation. Until this is resolved, caution would be advised. Before submitting your reply, select all the text (using Ctrl-A on a PC) and copy it using Ctrl-C. If you lose your text after logging in again, then you can still use Ctrl-V (paste) to prevent the loss of your text. HTH.1. i log in
2. i start a reply to a thread
3. if after say 5 mins, i ' submit reply '
4. i am asked to log on again
5. i log on again!
6. my reply is lost, there is nothing to post, lost in hyperspace
7. i have to start all over again
Regards.
Janet, thanks for looking. May peace be always with you.