Affect

Recognizing how Tu Lam temple affects its public is crucial in understanding how the temple helps ground the abstract idea of religion and God into a very tangible experience because of the way the religion manifests itself through different Buddhist practices and experiences to each person. Springgay and Truman describes affect as a rhetorical strategy in relation to place as "informed by vital and materialist theories, attends to the intensities and forces of an affecting and affected body" (Springgay and Truman 9). Therefore, the next 5 subsections is dedicated to identify how Tu Lam temple affects the body's five senses: taste, sound, touch, sight, and smell.