Xin Nian Hao!
by Danny Fisher
Today is the Chinese/Lunar New Year. Xin Nian Hao!
As a way of marking the occasion, I thought I would re-post a short video I made last year about the cleansing rituals that precede celebrations of the New Year at Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (I went to Taiwan on a research grant last year.)
Have a wonderful Year of the Ox!
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Back in the late 1980′s I had a chance to stay at Fo Guang Shan Monastery for a short time. The amount of work Buddhist temples and their inhabitants do for the community is staggering. Taiwan and this monastery are fond and treasured memories. Thanks.