Japanese incense may call to mind Buddhist temples and religious rituals.
Fronted by James Bagshaw (who, with his curly mop of hair and vintage glam style, calls to mind Marc Bolan), Temples may not render a new sound, but they deliver original, resplendent melodies and a blissed-out body of work, completely free of irony.
Keep in mind most temples in Thailand are a lot smaller and have a fairly modest number of monks and staff to manage.
Always bear in mind that the temple is a sacred space for those that are there to worship.
And while great buildings looked more like barnyards and ruins than elegant Confucian temples, scholars' studios and Ming merchants' residences, he made up his mind that these temples and homes were well worth saving.
I was taken there as a young child by a family friend, and ever since it has been etched on my mind as the archetypal temple to food.
And businesses are transforming into mind, body and soul temples of wellness to meet the demands of people increasingly eschewing traditional houses of worship and pursuing alternative paths to spiritual connection.
Maybe; but bear in mind that the sea-borne temple also conserves the cultivated gardens that harbour the temples of art.
In February, the Asia Society opens "Montien Boonma: Temple of the Mind," a retrospective look at a Thai artist who died two years ago; his installations are at once completely of our time and shaped by the Buddhist faith.
Many of his works, such as his Jonah, were drawn from the Bible, while other paintings, such as Macbeth and the Witches, The Temple of the Mind, and Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, were depictions of episodes from William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Wagner.
