Two weeks ago was the Lotus Lantern Festival celebrating the birth of Buddha. I got the the festival really late and only saw the parade, missed my chance to make a lotus. =( Regardless it was really nice and I loved seeing all the Lanterns all over. I saw one get burned while in the parade! Good thing the lady stomped it out before it caught onto something. Enjoy!
It was hard to get a good picture. There was rows and rows of people in the parade! Never saw a parade with this much people ever.
These two light statues were really cute.
It was a fire breathing peacock. I couldn't take the picture in time to get the fire.
Many of the streets were blocked off for this festival and there were so many people watching! I do miss going to the temple and lighting incense. Temples in Korea are just not the same, so many of them seem so generic. I guess I just have to venture even further out of Seoul to find a unique temple.
whoa! that's pretty awesome! there were some stuff going on in sj buddhist temples but nothing this big and no parade.. i didn't know korea still have buddhist believers. i thought most of them already converted to christianity?
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