Well, long time no see dude, and long time no post entries, it’s kinda lazy time for sure. Hehe..
I gonna tell you about fascinating experience I’ve ever had. When other people just relax on holiday, on the other hand me and my buddies had hectic time. We visited some vacation spots and it rained all day long. Sorry, I have to skip the places we’d visit to the last destination. Why? Indolent?? Ehmm… actually no, cuz in this entry obviously gonna about my maiden visit.
Ehm…, sorry for ambiguous title above, Journey to The West means the trip to Batu city…:D *I just exaggerate it on purpose
Sunday, 25 december 2011, not only a special day for christians and chatolics, yupz you know it well lhaa, it was X’mas day. My fellas and I went to Batu for having refreshment. Totally exhausted, we were completely wet cuz the rain seemed like not going to stop. Aissshhh…#bedraggled. After had maghrib prayer we went to buddhist temple or vihara. You might think it’s just an ordinary vihara. As you reckon like that, you are definitely wrong. Cuz this place is an extraordinary vihara called “Padepokan Dhammadipa Arama”.
FYI, this vihara is the largest vihara in Malang. It is located in Batu. It has clean, quite, and cool environment, probably because it is inside a housing area. Entered the vihara’s compound, first building which gonna catch your attention is “pagoda”. Well, we were not head to “pagoda” first. We had a friend guided us around the buddhist temple. Patirupaka Shwedagon Pagoda here is a replica of Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar. So, provide less money if we can see it in Batu, right…at least no need to go to Myanmar.^^
We strolled on the footpath which is lead to a particular building for vipassana (meditation). Before we reached that building we saw a reclining buddha glazed by gold, I don’t know for sure, but it looked like gold..:D
On the way to Vipassana Building we met a young woman in a white monk robe, she is an “atthasilani”. She is so beautiful, although she has her head shaved. Next, when we almost reach “vipassana” building a young monk (samanera) with an umbrella greeted us. Immediately, we had him as our guide then. At least he is more attractive than previous guide,hahaha…#no-offense
Oh wait, I forgot to intoduce his name, we called him “mas Ryan”, he is in the 5th semester now.
One thing I’ve learned is actually Buddha is not a religion, it’s a tenet of way of life. WTH, I’m 22 years old now but I know nothing about this stuff, how come??#SmackMyHead#. Buddha is a great spiritual teacher for buddhist, the way they worship Buddha is not kinda idol worship. It’s kinda give honour to Buddha as their Great Spiritual Teacher. I wonder if I didn’t visit buddhist temple, I would be trapped in misleading opinion. Thx God, I’m little bit smarter now…*prostrating*
There are so many statues inside building or outside, one of notable statue is the prominent Goddess Kwan Im. I don’t know for sure how to label her, actually Kwan Im is not a female. Transvestite? Only God knows. I mean Kwan Im is definitely a man. Such misleading info we got from “Journey to the west” movie, indonesian “kera sakti”. May be because of his physical appearance like a woman, then people tedn to call him “Goddess Kwan Im”. *clapping*
Here we go, we present you the pict of Kwan Im…I tend to not attach the “Gods” or “Goddess” label from now on. Hhaha…
All the photos above taken from
http://wisata.kompasiana.com/jalan-jalan/2010/06/04/padepokan-dhammadipa-arama-malang/
you might think that I’m such a big liar since there is no pict = HOAX
i’ll bring it to you soon when I revise it back ASAP guys…*promise, plus a pict of a handsome young monk “Maz Ryaaaannn…” ^^v
that’s all for now buds…gonna see you soon in the next post…chaooo…




