DAILY PHOTO: Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Bangkok

Taken in October of 2012 in Bangkok.

POEM: Prayer Flags [Tanka]

flags flapping,
twisting on a line,
colors bright
on the arid mountain --
desolation décor

DAILY PHOTO: A Stupa at Wat Pho

Taken in 2014 at Wat Pho in Bangkok

DAILY PHOTO: Taken from the Wat Chalong Pagoda, Phuket

Taken from the Wat Chalong Pagoda (Phuket) in January of 2015

DAILY PHOTO: Kathmandu Stupa

Taken in April of 2018 in Kathmandu

c (“Monkey Temple”)

DAILY PHOTO: Inside Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery, Bylakuppe

Taken in 2014 at Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery in Bylakuppe.

DAILY PHOTO: Little Monk at Peace

Taken somewhere in Asia (Thailand or Japan — I think,) sometime in the last decade.

DAILY PHOTO: Ajanta Caves from a Distance

Taken in October of 2014 in Maharashtra, Aurangabad District, near Fardapur


While these Buddhist caves look quite prominent now, in 1819, they’d been grown over by vegetation and were long forgotten until rediscovered by Captain John Smith, who was engaged in a tiger hunt at the time.

DAILY PHOTO: Kannon in Stone, Noda City

Taken in the summer of 2008 near Noda City, Japan