tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post4008912637844287814..comments2024-02-05T08:34:04.393+00:00Comments on OPEN URBANISM: The Architecture of Tiny Prayer Housesdebbie dinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16378467492976043277noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-46165896373625944682015-12-28T04:38:11.311+00:002015-12-28T04:38:11.311+00:00Hi, where is the factory location in malaysia?Hi, where is the factory location in malaysia?Tillai1Stophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03773544055787419457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-84526132214194599162015-12-28T04:37:58.654+00:002015-12-28T04:37:58.654+00:00Hi, where is the factory location in malaysia?Hi, where is the factory location in malaysia?Tillai1Stophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03773544055787419457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-81260052238497654762013-09-04T15:35:12.365+01:002013-09-04T15:35:12.365+01:00Hello! I've only seen this type in Malaysia! A...Hello! I've only seen this type in Malaysia! As mentioned, its apparently a common prayer item for foochow (hokchew) chinese in Ipoh. <br /><br />In Singapore there are altars and other similar prayer items for purchase in places like Rochor Centre and probably near the Bugis area, but never quite on the scale and detail as these ones in Malaysia!debbie dinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16378467492976043277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-45211286760699811492013-09-04T15:30:23.756+01:002013-09-04T15:30:23.756+01:00Hi Debbie, could you please share with me about th...Hi Debbie, could you please share with me about this tiny temples, where to buy?? thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-20293874025452070762013-08-04T07:15:08.514+01:002013-08-04T07:15:08.514+01:00Thanks for reading and glad you enjoyed it! I'...Thanks for reading and glad you enjoyed it! I'm going to slowly decode the chinese articles and google for it more in chinese.<br />DINGZHOU! I saw that name close to the page on the 2nd link in your comment, and oddly enough I am aware there is a county called DING COUNTY but this has nothing to do with my being a DING in surname. In fact I dont understand how it became transliterated into DING/TING (english) from CHEN (chinese). Oh well there are many things I still dont understand........<br /><br />Indeed, I saw many shrines in Italy and Philippines, both places with significant Catholic populations. Sometimes they were embedded in walls - actually, many Singaporean Chinese do keep prayer altars at home or just outside their highrise flats, embedded into small spaces. Sometimes you see them hiding under trees or squished into tight corners. I can conceivably imagine that these altars come from the same point of origin (from the same impulse that led people to build those tiny prayer houses) except that in the case of Singapore they are manifest in even tiny form, and embedded due to the space constraints in an densely populated city. Whereas in the suburban / rural parts of Malaysia people have so much more space to dedicate some land outside their houses to make little prayer houses.....debbie dinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16378467492976043277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262733155135486417.post-151057480760950982013-08-03T19:30:38.576+01:002013-08-03T19:30:38.576+01:00Oh thank you! This is such a wonderful post!
Pleas...Oh thank you! This is such a wonderful post!<br />Please research this further because it is fascinating. There seems to be some information on Google Books. Searching for "天宫 religion" and "天宫 culture" yielded these footnotes:<br /><br />http://books.google.nl/books?id=3zdJ1kHIkxEC&pg=PA227&dq=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%AB+religion&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=rUr9Uaz5M4bAswb8z4C4Bg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%AB%20religion&f=false<br /><br />http://books.google.nl/books?id=PRoAyvEv3_IC&pg=PA206&dq=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%AB+culture&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=h0v9UZjLD83zsgbanIC4CQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%AB%20culture&f=false<br /><br />The altars remind me of our own wayside shrines to saints and Mary in the more Catholic regions. But unfortunately these are being used less and less because Christianity is not doing well in Europe.<br /><br />I might write something about that ... uair01https://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com