| Perhaps you came here expecting to find The
Temple Gate, or even The Barefoot
Fool. Both of these former blogs are now defunct.
(So why did I quit blogging? Read about it.)
Instead of a blog, please read A
Letter from James, a regular feature regarding my recent activities.
Help! Please let me know if there are any
problems (broken links, pages that won't load, etc.). Use the
"Write
to The Temple Guy" link at the bottom of any page.
Finally: I hope you'll take a moment to Comment
on these pages.
WHAT'S NEW?
April, 2005
These pages were actually finished in
March, but because of my computer woes I forgot to tell you!
A page on Li
Shizhen, Chinese medical pioneer notified 4/2/05
Something on the Chinese attitude
toward luck: The
Road of the Fortune Tellers notified 4/2/05
A scary
picture published on Chinese New Year's Eve in the Shenzhen Economic
Daily notified 4/2/05
March, 2005:
Lots of new pages on Shenzhen
Temples!
In addition to updates to the Guan Gong Temple, Nantou,
page (addition of thumbnails), I created a lot of new temple pages.
They have been finished for weeks, just waiting for my new cable
connection so I could upload them. So here they are!
A complex of pages about the Tian Hou Temple, Chiwan.
In addition to the main page, read about:
Also, I've added a page on the nearby
Song
Shao Di Mu,
the tomb of "the last Song Emperor."
Next read about one of Shenzhen's two
"fake" temples, the Lamasery
in the Folk Culture Villages. I've
also written two brief pages about the place where the
"Lamasery" is located:
Shenzhen's newest temple is the San Sheng Gong,
dating back to late 2005.
The Amitofo
"Temple" in Dong Hu Park is Shenzhen's other
"fake" temple. I still need to do a page on the park
itself, and there's plenty of research left to be done on the "temple"
itself.
The first temple I visited in China
is the magnificent Hong Fa Temple,
Shenzhen's only Buddhist establishment (the others are "folk
religion"). It deserves multiple visits. What I have
posted here is just a first effort of what will be a major project.
In addition to the main page, read about:
That should keep you busy for a
while! The pages are probably less-than-perfect. Please let me
know if you find typos, broken links, etc.
One more thing: I recently discovered
another temple in Shenzhen, which will be added soon. And it
opens the possibility that there are more! So keep checking back!
February, 2005:
More figures:
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Tu
Di Gong, The "Earth God", and
-
Hou
Wang, also styled "Yang Hao," a local Hong Kong hero added
2/19/05
And one temple:
I've begun working on revisions to,
and expansion of, the pages dedicated to individual figures
in Chinese temples, which will ultimately replace the Honor
Roll pages. The older page is based on information in the Ascent
of Hsi Lai Temple pilgrimage; the new pages will be more
general. Please check out the revised 18
Arhats (Lohan) page, and the all new Fu
Lu Shou page. added 2/18/05
At long last: I have
spent four weeks of a five-week vacation revising an old website for
inclusion here. I undertook my Aki
Meguri ("Autumn Journey"), a 10-week trek through the
heart of Old Japan, in the Fall of 2001. I walked down the
400-year-old Tokaido Highway
from Tokyo to Kyoto, stopped in at spectacular sites in the Yamato
region, then did the 88-temple
pilgrimage on Shikoku. You can read some historical
background regarding the logistics of the trip, and, especially, see
the Words and Pictures pages
created along the way. There are also special indexes for the Logbook
pages and Journal entries, and
an alphabetical listing
of locations visited. Be warned: the entire site is comprised of
about 185 pages! Also, pleased be advised: the site is still in
"Beta." I am still re-reading pages for errors, adding
links, and especially testing existing links. If you find any
problems, please use the "Write to the Temple Guy" link at the
bottom of each page to let me know! added
2/13/05
February, 2005 (!):
Unbelievable, I know, but some added pages at last.
An article written early last year, The
Legend of Emon Saburo added
2/9/05
A Letter
that contains my "State of the Sojourn Address" added
2/6/05
A picture of my new friend Maggie
added 2/6/05
November, 2004: In addition to the Letter, please
take a look at new pages added to The Temple Guy (note that items created
prior to November 2004 can be accessed from The
Temple Guy main page or the Sitemap):
An updated Letter
(All
Letters) added 11/16/04
The
Shenzhen Central Library in Life
in a Special Zone
added 11/16/04
An updated Letter
(All
Letters) added 11/10/04
New Figures
pages in Mi-le-fo:
Men Shen
("Door
Gods") and Shun Feng
Er and Chien Li Yen, Tian Hou's Guardians added
11/10/04
A new page on Dapeng
Fortress, and a revision to the Dapeng
page in Friends.
Also, pages on two temples at Dapeng Fortress: Tian
Hou Temple and Tu
Di Shrine added
11/10/04
A bunch of pages about my first
visit to Hakka houses in Longgang: an introductory
page; something on
Hakka history;
information on several villages
from the book Hakka
Enclosed Houses; and picture pages for the visits to Hehu
(Crane Lake) New Dwelling and Dawan
Dwelling with teachers on November 6 added
11/10/04
Updates to the Holy
Humor and Linkin' Log
pages, and a special tribute to Bishop
Simeon, one of my main sources of really really good links
added 11/3/04
Added Glimpses,
new page on Little Encounters with Shenzhen, in Life
in a Special Zone
added 11/3/04
Four
Titans of Perennialism, Part 5: Joseph
Campbell and the Right Reading of Myth in Of
This and That (Essays on Religion) added
11/3/04
Two Poems by Kipling
in Life
in a Special Zone added 11/2/04
"Saint
Mickey D" at Sacred
Sights added 10/31/04
A Letter from James: October,
2004 added 10/31/04
Da
Peng (10/4/2004) in Friends
added 10/31/04
Changes made after September 10, but
before this "What's New?" page goes into effect (during the
revamp):
The Sitemap
A new section called Friends, with
pictures of social activities,including:
Two temple lists were added in the Hong
Kong Temple Project pages:
The entire One
Good Shot collection was moved off of Earthlink and onto this site,
and Buckets of Light was
upgraded.
An entirely new section, "Aunt Til's
Kids," was created for my family. It is password protected;
read more about the page and access here.
A top page was made for Furudera,
the Japan temples site (but remains to be developed)
The Life
in a Special Zone pages about Shenzhen were moved into the new Deep
Asia section; China and Japan pages will be added in the future
In addition to all of this, numerous
infrastructural changes were made to existing pages, with the idea of
easier navigation in mind. A webpage is almost a living, organic
thing, and grows according to its own rules. I have attempted to
bring some order into this chaos that is referred to by one friend, not
as my webpage, but as my "extravaganza."
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