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At the back of the shrine outside the temple, grows the sacred tree under which, or rather the ancestor of which, Buddha sat. Squares of gold leaf have been stuck on to the trunk and boughs. The temple, together with several acres of garden full of trees and flowers and votive stones, chapels, bells, and statues, lies on a deep courtyard below the level of the surrounding country. The view when one drives up and sees everything suddenly from the edge of the embankment is, as the books say, not easily forgotten’. There can’t be anything like it in the world. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) British novelist
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:48:30 +0000

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