Spent all day in the Wakayama mountains at a very eclectic Buddhist temple that will open soon. More photos but here are a few random shots. The main statue of 1000 Hands Kannon-sama is being shipped from China, and there is an opening ceremony by a Malaysian Zen master in the coming weeks.

Small Tibetan Buddhist statue with three vajra sitting in front of the statuecloseup of a Buddha statue rising from a gold lotus leafa wooden Amida relief against a cloud pattern cloth. The Amida is holding two strings that hang down over a third part of the artwork showing Kannon and Seishi-bosatsuCloseup of Tibetan writing in gold ink that rises from the black paper