Hi Loneranger, welcome back.
I was going to say: I join the Ranger's request. And then I realized that any person from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso might upload the pictures of those temples.
I think I said months ago that I had visited the temple in NY State, and I really liked it. The statues are just exquisite, so refined. I appreciated that the temple had the most traditional plan of a deity's mandala, and at the same time a flavor of Western esthetics in the simplicity of the adornments. It's less colorful than a typical Tibetan temple, and I think it's fine to express our culture in that manner. I remember that following the doctrine about the Dharma being the main of the Three Jewels, in a general way the scriptures should be placed above the images. In this temple the architecture does not allow for the typical wooden encasement filled with pechas, so very elegantly they built small, simple bookshelves above the main statues, and the scriptures in the bookshelves, instead of pechas, are Western books ... again, exquisitely crafted. These are just small details, there are many other remarkable features.
I really would like to have detailed photos of the general temple and the various groups of statues, and probably we don't need to give more work to the kind Administrator. We have several beloved brothers and sisters from the New Kadampas that surely very kindly can upload those pictures.
