Children offer Bon prayer

Children offer Bon prayer

KYOTO, Japan - Children kneel in prayer at stone Buddhist images in the annual Bon ''Ceremony of One Thousand Candles'' at Nenbutsu Temple in Adashino, Kyoto, on Aug. 23. The temple keeps about 8,000 Buddhist images excavated in the vicinity about 100 years ago.

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