We came across these two beautiful Venugopalas in Japan. There I thought you may be curious to know that Hindu deities are worshipped today as much in Japan as they are worshipped in India. So in fact you may be surprised to know that there are hundreds of temples to Saraswati alone in Japan, including a temple which is over 250 feet tall, to Saraswati that you do not get to see temples of Saraswati in India. Lakshmi is worshipped, you have so many deities, you have so many Shivas, you have Brahma.
You have so many temples even to Yama. In fact you would be curious to know that the Havan or Homa which is called Goma in Japan, is performed every day and in most cases more than once every day, in more than 1200 temples of Japan, along with Sanskrit chanting and how do all the Japanese priests chant in Sanskrit? Because many of them cannot read Sanskrit. It brings us to the most beautiful point of all which is that, Kana, the Japanese alphabet in fact was created on the phonetics of Sanskrit. So if you go to a primary school in Japan, you will hear the children there going aa, aaa, ee, eee, oo, ooo, just like you will have in India.
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