Battersea Peace Pagoda
If I need a bit of peace and quiet, I’ll sometimes head to Battersea Park. It’s a great place for all kinds of fun – but it also possesses something quite unusual, a Buddhist pagoda.
The pagoda was built in 1985, and donated to the city by the Japanese Buddhist order, Nipponzan Myohoji, which had a monastery close to the park. (They had already built a pagoda in Milton Keynes, where they had first settled.)
Four gilded Buddhas watch from their niches on the four faces of the pagoda. Each one holds his hands in a different ‘mudra’, with a …read more
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