Buddhist Centre to Seat 2 million People

During our Bangkok field trip last week we visit the Dhammmakaya Cetiya Temple on the outskirts of Bangkok. What they are doing is quite startling. This Buddhist sect is building a temple site which can seat 2 million people. It claims to be "the largest venue for mass meditation and prayers for Buddhists and peace-loving people of the world". They have designed the Temple to last at least 1000 years.
The yellow dome you see in the background is made of 300,000 small buddha statues. Followers of Dhammakaya had to pay approximately $1200 to buy one of these statues and have their names engraved on it and placed on the dome. Here is an extract from the sect's website: "The size of the individual personal Buddha image is 15 by 15 centimeters, widening to a base of 18 centimeters. Donation at any amount is appreciated. Anyone donating a certain amount of money for building a complete Buddha image may have one’s name or the name of a beloved ‘inscribed’ on the base of a personal Buddha image. In fact, world peace is shared and is the shared duty of everyone. It cannot be created by a single person or a single religious group alone. Hence, world peace needs everyone to make it happen. As such, the personal Buddha images on the Dhammakaya Cetiya are a witness of mankind’s effort to help create world peace for mankind.
"http://www.dhammakaya.or.th/VisitorZone/detail_page_01_en.php

It is quite unbelievable isn't it.

Dancing Baby

Our youngest son loves music as this video will show. At the sound of music he stops everything and sometimes breaks out in a dance.

Sick again

This week has been a difficult one with both children being sick. A first caught a bad cold from the carer at childcare and then he developed this terrible rash. Then L caught A's cold which lead to an ear infection which he is on antibiotics for. Then L developed a rash (possibly from the antibiotics). Yesterday, we returned to the childcare and found out that A slipped on the floor while crawling and hurt his left arm. Every time he moved his left arm he was in great pain. He had partially dislocated his elbow. In God's grace at the moment there is a missionary at the language school who is a doctor and he was able to pop's A's elbow back in place (and diagnosis L's ear infection too). When it rain it pours as they say. Hopefully we are over the worst.

birthday video

Thought I'd give a video a try. Enjoy

Holiday Pics

Some more holiday pics - Feeding the giraffes at Chiang Zoo

Happy birthday

It was A's birthday while we were on holidays. Our children dressed up in traditional Korean birthday clothes. It's actually A's birthday but L wants to get into the action too. A and L have great fun together and we are so thankful to God for them.