The older woman stood with beadrolls in her hands

Older woman standing with beadrolls in her hands in Lungshan Temple — Older woman standing with beadrolls

Surrounded by corridors, the main hall of Lungshan Temple was crowded with people praying in the front, and the side corridors were equally crowded with people. The people here were standing or sitting, spending their time as they pleased. Some were simply resting, but most were holding sutras in their hands. They are reading sutras. As I watched, I noticed that they were occasionally turning the pages.

Unlike these worshippers, the old woman in the photo standing alone in the hallway did not have a book that looked like a sutra in her hand. Instead, she was holding prayer beads in both hands and clawing them as she stared at the main hall. She seemed to be counting the number of times while reciting the scriptures. This means that the old woman must have memorized the contents of the scriptures. Therefore, she does not need the sutras written on paper. Still, it must take a long time to chant the sutras 216 times (108 x 2, since it is the equivalent of two prayer beads). Or do Taiwanese prayer beads not have 108 beads?

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