Temple Stay

Stayed at the Anraku-ji lodgings. The room was spartan and the meals served were vegetarian.

There was a prayer session with a temple monk after dinner. We prepared 3 items:
Filled a name slip, osamefuda,
Wrote a wish attached to a leafy twig,
Wrote the name of an ancestor on a wood slat.

The prayer session included submitting the osamefuda, lighting a candle which flowed down a water channel "stream" and planted the wish twig, then burning the ancestor slat in a pyre as a remembrance.Read more