The Pagoda Garden
The Pagoda Garden is a place where the ashes of many llamas throughout hundreds of years are buried. The ashes of any one to three Buddhas would be buried in holy, blessed earth within the limits of the garden with a pagoda built on top of it. Only a few pagodas had the ashes of less than three Buddhas beneath it. The first pagoda built, however, contained the ashes of one of the first llamas in the history of Shaolin. This pagoda was like no other pagoda in that area. The pagoda was short and very shabby compared to all of the other pagodas, except that it had a certain and strange feeling all around it, as if it was telling us that it didn't matter how it looked because it was the most important pagoda to the garden.
The Buddhist Pagoda Garden lies in the darkness and silhouette of a mountain that has a large, white statue that is apparently noticed from almost anywhere in Shaolin. It was a very, very large statue of Bodhi Dharma, who was the founder of the Shaolin temple. The Pagoda garden had improved the affection and and beauty the Chinese had put in, to preserving the memory of the llamas and what they did for the community. The pagodas are as you would expect-- pleasurable and satisfying-- and will be the house of spirits' souls that deserve such a monument...forever.
