Hi Slowwalker,

this is a very interesting post! I practice zen meditation in temple called Musang Am in Italy, but before I was among Shinjo Ito's children.

I would like to highlight that there's a difference between countries and Buddhism branches. Furthermore, there are different buddhas for each country (India, Malaysia, China, Japan etc).

If one day you happen to go to Hong Kong I've been in this amazing place called 10,000 buddhas monastery:

http://www.hongkongextras.com/_ten_thousand_buddhas_monastery.html