Holywood Primary School paid a visit to a Buddhist temple at Eskdalemuir as part of their world religion topic. With help from our tour guide Peter, he gave us a lot of information.
The meditation hall was full of gold. It had so many tiny gold Buddhas in glass cabinets.
After lunch we went back in to the temple to see some Buddhists chanting. It was very noisy and we could not understand what they were chanting.
Inside the stupa there were three Buddha
statues. The stupa is a
remembrance place for Buddhists. The prayer wheels outside the Stupa were used to send wishes to other countries and loads of people scatter peoples ashes there.
The shop was really dear but every thing was
handmade. E.g. a prayer mat was £250 it was a lot of money.
The journey was not good on the way there because 2 people were sick. On the way back it was fun but travelling by bus was slow and boring at times.
There are loads of Buddha statues at Samye Ling but they all mean something different. My most
favourite one was the
Buddha with the cobra on its head it stands for scary . It looks really cool there were also prayer wheels that you could spin aswell my favourite bits were the meditation hall and the Stupa .
By Isla
