July 21- Buddhist Temple in Richmond

Buddhism

Buddhism is a belief from Asia.
The people who practice that think they must live every day like it is the last, they practice peace and being calm. They believe in reincarnation. They are born and they die many times before they become a Buddha and reach Nirvana.
Ling Yan Mountain Buddhist Temple on Nr. 6 Road (the Highway to Heaven  )

This temple has nuns but no monks. The nuns are bald and some of them have tattoos on their heads. They wear uniforms that are black with a brown cape. They look melancholic and they pray all the time.
They eat the main meal at 11 o’clock. Visitors are welcome to eat with them. We sat quietly in the dinning room in rows. The nuns chanted a prayer and we chanted too. The chant was awful; the meal was worse. Helpers served us from aluminums pails. We had small bowls and chopsticks. The food was strange. One dish was grey. It was seaweed. The pancakes were disgusting. We had ½ a napkin. We escaped quickly!!!!

The Steveston Highway Buddhist Temple

After the Ling Yan Temple we went to Steveston Highway Buddhist Temple, the biggest Buddhist temple in North America. In the entrance there was a fat happy Buddha. Inside there was a Buddha with 100 arms and each hand has an eye. Inside was an enormous gold Buddha just like the other temple. We bought incense, lit it, and put it in front of the fat happy Buddha.
The antidote to so much strange food was very good strawberry and raspberry ice cream. We ate it on the Steveston dock.