A behind the scenes look

Tuesday after work, Mr. Fujinaga took me to a local Buddhist temple. A long-time friend of his is a priest. The man and his wife run the temple. Unfortunately I did not catch their names, but they were very very kind in allowing me to browse around and go into some usually closed-off areas of the temple.







The ceiling is painted to resemble heaven. The crosses are "borrowed" from Christianity. I was also told that similar to the Christian concept of Sunday School for children, there is a Buddhist School held one Sunday a month for children. They showed me a slide show of a Buddhist School that several of my elementary students attended.