Comments on: A Visit to Rengeji Temple with Nils Ferry http://regex.info/blog/2009-09-11/1312 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marcina, USA http://regex.info/blog/2009-09-11/1312#comment-36619 Marcina, USA Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:36:00 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-09-11/1312#comment-36619 "you may not take photographs from the garden in this one." Any idea why on Earth not? That seems a very odd prohibition! <span class='jfriedl'>It's not all that uncommon. I can only guess at the reason, but I'd think it's to increase sales of the photo book they sell. Dunno. It also could be that there are religious reasons why they don't want photography back into the temple... I've heard of that before at other temples. Dunno. —Jeffrey</span> “you may not take photographs from the garden in this one.”

Any idea why on Earth not? That seems a very odd prohibition!

It’s not all that uncommon. I can only guess at the reason, but I’d think it’s to increase sales of the photo book they sell. Dunno. It also could be that there are religious reasons why they don’t want photography back into the temple… I’ve heard of that before at other temples. Dunno. —Jeffrey

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