The two men visit the temple every Sunday morning to offer prayers to Buddha, who according to the sect’s doctrine presides over paradise, and to the graves of relatives buried in the temple’s compound.
A 25-year-old intern of a judicial scriveners’ office began attending the morning service every Sunday in October, after his mother’s death in July.
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