Koreans from Los Angeles and Garden Grove; Tibetans from Long Beach; Thais from Hollywood and Yucca Valley. Black, Latino and white Buddhists also attended the ceremony Tuesday at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo. Followers of two dozen major schools of Buddhism participate in a national memorial ceremony against racial hate on Tuesday. “We want to acknowledge that it’s quite natural to have feelings of anger, of wanting to kind of fight back,” against such hate, Williams said. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)AdvertisementAnother ceremonial object was a ceramic lotus flower, handcrafted for the occasion with cracks deliberately inserted into its leaves.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 09, 2021 02:48 UTC