The Joyful Land Kadampa Buddhist center is a constructed place as it is within a building, possibly a former house. At first glance, the space did not seem at all religious. When I entered the center, I was greeted by a lady wrapped in red and yellow sheets, gave me a tour of the center. It was not until I entered the meditation room in which I got a grasp of a sacred space. The room had many chairs in which faced the front of the room. The front had a large chair facing the other’s, a stand of some sort and a wall of artifacts. It seemed to be as if there was a spatial boundary separating those participating in the mediation class and the teacher as Kelsang Chöyang was the only one close to the Buddha. The artifacts on the wall behind
