WHM Dharma School students sang “Golden Chain of Love” as part of the Central Maui Hanamatsuri Day program on April 5. Kamauoha provided accompaniment on the drum. Although small in number that day, all five students sang with enthusiasm, and Kamau helped round out the group’s presentation.
On April 12, students arrived early to decorate the hanamido (Baby Buddha’s flower pavilion) with fresh flowers and greenery gathered from their gardens and yards. Students, their families, and temple members then celebrated the Buddha’s birth by pouring sweet tea over the statue, symbolizing the “sweet rain” said to have fallen in the Lumbini Garden in India on April 8 more than 2,500 years ago.
L to R, Front: Jaxon, Daryl, June, Kora. Back: Ryan, Aaron, Risa, Ziva, Sophia, Emma and baby brother Jadon, Rev. Shinkai Murakam