Hey-O,

[carolyn41084]

My parents just left yesterday and I thought I'd write you all about the highlights of their visit

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[zurell]

Namo Buddha stupa is the exact pin-point in Nepal where the Buddha in a previous life died offering his body to a starving female tiger and her cubs which represents Shakyamuni's compassion.

That's...not...lame...that's a religious shrine to a holy area. Are you sure you saw the actual stupa shrine? Just to be sure this is what you saw? http://www.thangka.ru/photos/img/040.jpg

You...sorta forget my half of the family are Buddhists...right? T_T

[carolyn41084]

hey, sorry i did forget your buddists, do you go to a temple in madison or fondy at all? would you consider yourself more buddist or more christain? i guess i just think of you as catholic since you went to the springs, anyway sorry, lame was the wrong word to use, it just wasn't what we were expecting and it was such a hard hike to get there, but we did see the right thing, we just thought it would be larger, but it was one of the smallest stupas we saw and it's sort of in the middle of nowhere, the village around it is really small~ we thought it would be a bigger village also, but in retrospect it was still cool, sorry again! how is everything going for you? gettting ready to go back to school?

[zurell]

Nah, it's okay. I'm more Buddhist than Christian and I guess it would have been confusing as to why I went to the Springs with it being a Catholic high school and all.

*scratches head* Ah well, it's not exactly the largest monument to the Buddha in the world but I sorta figured considering the area for what it's worth to be able to build it it's still pretty neat to think that the Buddha Shakyamuni was around there...uh, even if in a previous lifetime on his journey to becoming the Buddha. ^_^;