Asian shrines

Usage examples of pagodas.

Eventually, the pagodas lost their connection with Buddhism and were built in ail shapes and sizes to bring civic good fortune.

I slept in the precincts of a small Shingon temple, among shrubs trimmed in the shapes of dragons, pagodas, ships, and umbrellas.

We sailed upon brightly painted brothel barges that floated over azure lakes -- and docked at artificial emerald islands where pallid priests with flabby faces and twitching hands sold the strangest things in peculiar pagodas -- and we rode through the streets in a palanquin so huge that it was carried by sixty swearing servants.

Last night I slept in the precincts of a small Shingon temple, among shrubs trimmed in the shapes of dragons, pagodas, ships, and umbrellas.