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From 29 December to 1 January, practitioners immersed themselves in the silence of practice during this New Year's sesshin.
To enter the new year, some human beings gather in Buddhist monasteries to celebrate an ancestral ritual: the ceremony of the 108 bells. Each person rings the large monastery bell and makes a vow - a commitment - for the coming year.
This is a tradition of Soto Zen Buddhism.
Here are some pictures :)
On the video below, the ritual filmed 4 years ago by Konrad Maquestieau....