…Kinda weird, huh?

By the way, if you don’t know about Nan Hua, it’s pretty darned cool — built in the 90s in South Africa, it’s the largest temple and monastery in all of the African continent. It’s a temple of Venerable Hsing Yun’s Fo Guang Shan organization, and as such follows the Linji (Chan) and Pure Land schools. Check out their newsletter to see all the good they’re doing.

(And props must go to the photographer who shot the statue.)

If you like this kind of good-natured stupidity, you’ll find more “Separated at Re-birth?” entries here, here, and here.