Welcome to the Lotus Buddhist Temple
Current Leader: Sun Koken
Rules Do:
1. Wear long pants and sleeves, sarongs and shirts can often be rented outside the temple
2. Remove your shoes and hat
3. Bow your head, It is customary to bow your head to Buddha when first entering the temple regardless of your own religious views.
4. Show respect, keep quiet and conservative.
Don't:
1. Point your fingers and feet towards Buddha
2. Touch decorations or artwork before asking
3. Bring in weaponry of any kind, you may leave it at a weapons locker outside with a trusted custodian.
4. Criticise others for their beliefs.
5. Spread your own belief within the public areas.
Leader Sun Koken is available for private counselling and advice
This was a small notification of a gadget that a girl had somewhere in her black tight pilot suit with a dress and trousers and only an Auxilia Coalition logo on her chest as contrast in, indeed, that single color suit. Her always curious and excited look was noted by almost everyone, since nobody expected to see a similar beauty and cuteness in a young girl like her (about 22 years old) walking happily looking around what Planet Pygar could offer. When she found the place, she remembered about what they told about that temple and she couldn't wait to see what was into that. She curiously looked at the rule board and after some seconds she put off her boots, showing black socks, and she proceeded into the temple looking for interesting areas. The cold temperature of the floor in stone gave a sensation on her that she hadn't felt before and this excited her even more.
Sun looks towards the new arrival, she is dressed in her full Buddhist robes, with no shoes. She walks over, beaming a smile over towards Mary "Mary, child goodness I did not expect to see you here, oh you look well" she wraps her arms around Mary giving her a friendly hug before looking around the temple "Welcome to the Lotus Temple, my home away from home you could say. Oh how marvellous and grand it is." Sun says, she gestures around the cavenous interior, moulded out of the bedrock of Pygar and towards the large sandstone statue of the Buddha. Sun lets go of Mary and walks forward to the Buddha doing her customary bow in-front of the statue
When she noticed about Sun, her mood was even more happy than before also due to being welcomed in a lively way than this. She immediately hug her with a simple <<Oh, Sun!!>> then following her being very excitedly to explore the temple even with a guide who knows well. At the front of the Buddha statue, despite her catholic faith, she respectively bow in front of the statue without any sign of reluctance, being very curious and happy to know new cultures. <<I was going to visit it one day. I told you I love new places and different planets and yet at the entrance this place is breathtaking!>>
Sun does her warm smile at Mary's eagerness, she nods towards her with the same smile speaking in her serene and polite fashion "Well this is a new place for many, Pygar. I do what I can to assist the people here as much as one can do" she places her hands together "Where would you like to go first, some food and tea perhaps? There is a lovely garden I have helped to cultivate."
Mary was undecided about what to answer but learning quickly about Sun's culture she knew that a tea with some vegetable would be a good meal for a walking around a place. After she heard about a garden and the fact that Sun helped to cultivate that, you didn't know if her excitement was stable or even increasing. <<Oh, a garden? I'd like to see that! I can't wait! >>
Sun is bemused and pleased by her excitement, it's been sometime since she saw genuine happiness in another person. Sun gestures with her hand for Mary to follow, walking through the temple grounds and passing by people praying in the spacious area. Buddhism was growing slowly in Pygar, people having lost their own hopes after Gran Canaria. She walks out into the large underground garden, with rows of different flowers and flora all of it being supported by advanced grow lights, simulating the warmth and light of the Sun. Some other monks collect vegetables and fruit in baskets from these areas, Sun nods and bows towards them before turning around to watch Mary.
Mary was enchanted. She hadn't words about what whe was seeing. It was all beautiful and curious and she started to feel calm comfortable to the place like if beginning to be part of that place, the nature, but maintaining that huge level of happiness. She continued to have no words for what surrounded her, maybe waiting for a response of Sun.
Sun continues until she comes to a small gasebo with a bench. Sun calmly sits down on the bench, she does her friendly smile at Mary "I know it is a lot we can done with so little, but that is the drive of us. We persevere through any hardship to bring about beauty around us, we have helped to supply vegetables and fruits to the Pygar populace." Sun looks to a small table with a kettle and small stove she turns on the stove beginning to boil some water for the tea.
<<And you did it so good... >>. Mary sat close to Sun looking also at the tools on the table, waiting the tea was ready and starting to be a bit thirsty. <<No offence but I knew that even in "difficult" planets like Pygar you can realize beautiful places and magnificent service... >>. Her smile was impossible to cancel.
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