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Having paid a flying visit to Thailand’s second city previously, on my second visit to southeast Asia I planned to combine a dental procedure with an extended stay in Chiang Mai, where there are jaw-dropping temples and mouth-watering dishes around every corner, not to mention monks galore. I happened to arrive at the beginning of a week-long…
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Kansai is a region that stems from the metropolis of Osaka and spreads out to the the prefectures of Nara, Kyoto, Kobe, Wakayama and more. I’d missed the area and it’s people since my last visit a year prior. The following photographs were taken over a week on the turn of 2014. To begin the…
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/good_and_evil_2.html#rMK9PcgYdEJGekvz.99 If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Herman Hesse Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/good_and_evil.html#Z76jZSIigQJbyQAC.99 Wisdom…
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No sooner had the final Autumn leaves fallen to their fiery death, than Korea’s mountains were zipped up in their powder-white body bags. Winter maybe the harshest of seasons, yet a freshly-laid bright natural blanket offers further splendor to old spiritual areas such as Bongwonsa on Mount Ahn, It’s sad to think of how much Buddhist architecture was destroyed…
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