Veneration of the Ancestors Feast, Trairatanaram Temple, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
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Index data: All of the following photographs except 1-7 were made at the Buddhist temple in Chelmsford - Trairatanaram Temple (which serves the Lowell community) on the occasion of the Veneration of the Ancestors Feast. Oa-1a, Worshipers in temple, primarily a child and Buddhist nuns; 2a-15a, Dhammak Vddho and friends in a meditation hut that Dhammak Vddho built for himself. All the other monks do their meditating and sleeping in the temple. 6a, 7a, 13a, and 15a are good photos; 16a-22a, Dhammak Vddho with his habit or cassock stretched out, supported on one end by a friend, followed by a sequence of him wrapping himself into it. 16a and 20a are good photos; 23a-26a, Pre-adolescent girls and younger playing with a stretched piece of string (some kind of variation on jump rope?) outside of temple.
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