Azure at Tuesday
by Mike
In Buddhist temples there are eight stations for each day of the week, Wednesday being split into morning and evening. Practitioners go to the day on which they were born and pour nine glasses of water on the buddha’s head to grant good luck to their mother, father, sister, sig other, grand parents and so on. They then reach below and pour five glasses on the head of a dragon… I’m not sure what that symbolizes.
Obviously we had no idea which day of the week we were born on, but apparently the monks carry around little books that have calendars going back as far as 1900. So a monk we met pulled the book out and flipped to Sept 29, 1979: Saturday. April 1st, 1980 was a Tuesday. In the picture above, Az is at the Tuesday station.
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I was told that their “Nobel Prize Winner” was born on a Tuesday as well. Her name is Aung San Suu Kyi and she is the leader of the party for Democracy. She is under house arrest for the rest of her life and people aren’t supposed to talk about her, so they just don’t use her name.
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