Day 6 - still at the temple

Here is a couple of pictures of a group that came by bus. They are chanting the Heart Sutra and some other stuff. In addition to the Heart Sutra each temple has a set of things that members of that subsect of Shingon chant in front of each of the buildings that contain an alter.

The fountain where you wash your hands is on the right and on the left is a statue, I think it is Kobo Daishi. Notice the small pagoda behind the fountain and the lamp in the foreground.
This is the little building where you place a lighted candle as part of the preparation for chanting the Heart Sutra. The walls are glass to protect the candles from the wind but allow them to be seen, and the panels on the front slide so that you can put you candle inside.
A young man that we met took this out of focus picture with me cell phone camera. I am including it here because it acurately represents the way we were beginning to feel - all fuzzy and somehow no longer a part of the world that we came from.

He tried three times and the last one finally turned out okay. The problem was that the lens was covered with moisture from the rain that we had had earlier.