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The view as you enter the Temple. Each picture will include a short explanation of that picture.
The flag "keeps" bad luck away.
Ceremonial rice to be blessed by the Monks.
Seating for the Monks
The small table is for the lay leader who chants the blessings for each day of the week. A person born on each day of the week lights the candle for that day of the week. Note the wrapped up yarn in the foreground. This is used near the end of the service as discussed on a later slide.
Closeup of the center table. See next slide for more details.
Each candle represents a day of the week. The Monks will chant as each candle is lite to offer blessing for persons born on that day. Note the balled up yarn in the center of the picture.
Note the strings at the top of the picture. On a previous slide you saw a knotted string. The final part of the ceremony is for each member of the congregation to unwind the knotted string (see center of this picture) over their head, and wrap the string around their head three times. Symbolically this represents the idea that all sentient beings are interconnected.

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