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Buddhist Experience

Issues in Religion and Culture Buddhist Temple

How to be a Perfect Stranger

Being a "perfect stranger" can be more difficult than it sounds when it comes to attending a worship service that is different than your own. There is also a lot of necessary research that is involved in order to be the "perfect stranger". This past week I had the opportunity to visit the Samarpan Hindu Temple in Philadelphia, where I became the perfect stranger in a culture that I knew little about before taking this class.
The first thing that I did in my research was to find out the dress code and any other rules that I should know about in attending the service or "Puja" as they call it. I felt like the dress code was one of the most important rules of the Temple to be followed because I didn't want to offend anyone or become a distraction for anyone by the way that I was dressed so the knowledge of rules helped me out a lot. I learned that shoes are not allowed inside the Prayer Hall, all......


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