We went to a very interesting ceremony at our local temple, last weekend… A ritual of purification by water! Those dudes walked out of the temple towards a trough filled with water; they took off their bathrobe and crouched down, started to chant while scooping water out of the trough and splashed the water over their body. After repeating that ritual a few times, they were given a bathrobe and went back to the temple to get changed. We were then ushered into the temple to attend the rest of the ceremony. We weren’t sure if we’d go in, knowing we wouldn’t understand much but that nice monk invited us in and gave us a seat and then … for over an hour we were listening to those same dudes chanting in Japanese (?) It was … an interesting experience…
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