Showing posts with label temple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temple. Show all posts

Escape to the Orient

Guess where I've been recently...
(More on this later, I'll wait for your guesses...)





Update: Sorry if I mislead you (well, to tell the truth, I meant it...).
I didn't have to travel far to see this temple. Actually I didn't travel East, but West, and only for 22 km, about 14 miles, from my home. This is the Zu Lai temple, located in Cotia, a town in the greater São Paulo. It was built just a few years ago. (You can find more pictures here.)
They have a vegetarian cafeteria, a coffee shop, a gift shop, a small museum, and besides the Buddhist activities, they also teach several classes there: Tai Chi, Chinese language, vegetarian cooking, Shiitake mushroom cultivation, Kung Fu...
Surprised? Well, I was, too. A recent tourism ad says that if you can't find something in São Paulo, is because it doesn't exist. I guess this can be used as evidence...