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This is a view inside the Zendo, Jun. 14, 2003, from near the inner double wooden entry doors (the threshold where we bow to enter or exit), facing south toward the Zendo altar. A Zendo is a "dojo", a dojo being a "Way Place" ("Way" being the Tao [Chinese], or Do [Japanese]) (photo by Joe Montani (JM)).
A close view of the Zendo altar, Jun 14, 2003; the fine altar table is from China. The wall hanging bears the character for "Buddha". The statue at the center of the altar is of Shakyamuni Buddha, in the "Earth-Touching" pose (a depiction from the historical Buddha's biography at which time he vowed, with the Earth as his witness, that he would not arise from his meditation pose until he had attained enlightenment). At the right on the altar is an ink painting of Bodhidharma, the semi-legendary historical figure who carried Zen from India to China. When the Zendo was dedicated in a wonderfully dynamic ceremony in May, 1998, tiny holes were perforated in the paper of the Bodhidharma painting through the two eyes of the eyelid-less Ancestor, to "open the eyes" of our old Bodhidharma, while we opened our temple for Tucson and for all practitioners (photo by JM).
Bodhidharma, with open eyes (photo by JM).