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“Searching for Buddha’
“Searching for
Buddha’
Thistle Hall, Cuba Street Thursday
30th June –Sunday 3rd July 10am-5pm
Heather Hapeta has studied Buddhism in Thailand and although she has been involved in a monk-making ceremony - by helping to cut the hair of 79 new monks - and has a certificate to show she meditated for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej when he was unwell, this photographic exhibition is about how Buddha images are made.
She’d not realised it was an almost secret occupation and had searched many places before giving up the hunt. Two days later a Swedish backpacker told her ‘my sister found a place like that when she was cycling through Thailand 6-months ago.”
Heather immediately
caught the next motorbike, train, and cycle rickshaw to the
town where she spent eight days watching the whole process
– these black and white photos are the record of that
week.
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