Source: NPR
BY SCOTT NEUMAN
Anyone who has ever owned a dog – or any pet, for that matter – can tell you how difficult that last day is.
And so it must have been for the owners of 114 Sony Aibo robotic dogs whose beloved pets were given a Buddhist send-off last week at a ceremony at Japan’s 450-year-old Kofukuji Temple.
The Japan Times reports: “In some respects, it was a funeral like any other in Japan, with incense smoke wafting as a priest chanted a sutra, praying for the peaceful transition of the souls of the departed.”
Categories: Asia, Buddhists, Japan, The Muslim Times