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MID-SUMMER FUN - JULY 2006
Here's the most recent pics of offering service and other great things happening at the abbey.
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Venerable Lobsang models the abbey's gender equity philosophy on this bright summer day.
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A beautiful new Buddha, a gift from Venerable Lobsang Thubten, graces the abbey's perennial garden.
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The fields around the abbey are carpeted with sweet peas in July.
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The sweet pea fields cast a splendid foreground to the evening summer sky.
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Venerable Lobsang makes friends with one of the many sentient beings who call the abbey home - this one is a rubber boa
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Jan and her new friend smile for the camera.
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A few of the wild turkeys who frequent the land introduce their new babies to the abbey residents and guests.
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3 fearless chipmunks share a lookout by the raspberry patch.Many of the beings at the abbey appear to be less afraid. Maybe they found out the abbey residents keep the first precept!
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Dan Beck,a volunteer from Ellensburg, Washington made Venerable a beautiful new cabinet for the studio.Dan also brought great photos of his straw bale house and shop for us to see.
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Sharon from Los Angeles picks raspberries in the evening after practice. The cool end of a hot summer day makes it hard to be inside.
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