Thursday, December 9, 2010

Religions Field Trip Reflection

This Hindu temple called 'Sri Mahamariamman', and the place is really wide and big, and I think it is almost bigger than the mosque. The Hindu temple looks a lot more creative than the Buddhist temple and the mosque, because Hindu temple have a lot sculptures, and it is really creative and talented pattern. I could just imagine how hard they created the pattern of the tower that looks like a pyramid. It have a lot of decoration inside, and it is also crowded. I think Hindu is close to Buddhist and Islam, because, Buddhist have a lot of creation, and Islam, they need to wash their hands, elbow, mouth, hair, legs. But Hindu is close because they need to wash their feet before entering the temple, and it is same as Islam.
This temple is really creative with a lot patterns, but the place is small. I could see that there are two ancient looking guards, two golden dragon, and a lion statue. In this photo, the Buddhist temple have a lot of red color, but when we went inside, it have a lot of decorations. Buddhist temple is almost similar to Hindu temple, because both of the temple are creative and almost colorful. It also have a lot of pattern.
The mosque looks like a quiet and a sacred looking place. When I took this picture, I can't see a person, except tall trees and the mosque. Although it looks quiet, but the building is wide and big. I could also see that there are a lot of door patterns, and 2 tall towers. What I think that mosque is not really similar as the other temple, because it is not really colorful, but the patterns are nice, almost similar to the Hindu temple and Buddhist temple.

Hindu temple and Buddhist temple uses fire to pray or to use for something, and they use sculpture to describe their Gods, but Islam doesn't use sculpture and fire, but they use water to clean themselves, and it is same as the Hindu. Hindu temple is similar to Buddhist temple and Islam. But Islam is a little different than the two temples, because, they don't have sculpture, they have a big place. They pray in front of a sacred scripts which was hanging on the wall. And Islam people wash themselves in a different way. First they clean their hands until the elbow, then the mouth, face, ear, hair, and then legs. Islam place looks like a quiet place, like sacred and the place was also wide and big compared from the two temples. But Hindu temples is a lot bigger than the Buddhist. Hindu believes that there are a lot of different kinds of Gods, that can reincarnate, guide you, help you, giving you a good luck or bad luck, etc. Islam believes that when they do a good deed, they would have no harm from the Gods. Buddhist believes that when you do a good deeds, there is a God that send you a happy place when you died, but if you do a bad deeds, there is a devil that would keep your bad spirits away. I like all of them because they were really interesting! I learned many things about it, and it was fun! I love to see the places, the decorations that they made, how they build it, what they believed, what they need to do, and their festivals.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Aushwitz concentration camps

How long the prisoners lived in the camp?