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Where are you going next? BUDDHIST HELL!!!
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ED doubts the existence of Buddhist Hell. here's a taste of what he's missing.

We'll start easy, with a Japanese tourist blog: A TOUR OF THE BUDDHIST HELL
http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/ojoyoshu.htm
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Here's a nice Thai one: Buddhist hell ("NAROK" - นรก)
http://www.thaiworldview.com/wat/wat6.htm
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And here's Haw Par Garden by the moguls who invented Tiger Balm. This is the one I've visited and it's absolutely awesome.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/41369079/
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...check out Kingdom of Little People.

Quote:Kunming Journal
A Miniature World Magnifies Dwarf Life
Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: March 3, 2010

KUNMING, China — Chen Mingjing’s entrepreneurial instincts vaulted him from a peasant upbringing to undreamed-of wealth, acquired in ventures ranging from making electric meters to investing in real estate. But when he was 44, the allure of making money for money’s sake began to wane. He wanted to run a business that accomplished some good.

And so last September, Mr. Chen did what any socially aware entrepreneur might do: He opened a theme park of dwarfs, charging tourists about $9 a head to watch dozens of dwarfs in pink tutus perform a slapstick version of “Swan Lake” along with other skits.

Mr. Chen has big plans for his Kingdom of the Little People. Imagine a $115 million universe in miniature, set amid 13,000 acres of rolling hills and peaceful lakes in southern China’s Yunnan Province, with tiny dogs, tiny fruit trees, a 230-foot-high performance hall that looks like the stump of a prehistoric tree and standard-size guest cabins.

Also, a black BMW modified to resemble a flying saucer, from which dwarfs will spill forth to begin their performances.

“It will be like a fairy tale,” Mr. Chen said. “Everything here I have designed myself.”

The site is far from complete. So far, it mainly consists of the tree, 33 Dr. Seuss-style cottages with crooked chimneys where kingdom residents pretend to live and specially equipped dormitories where they actually reside. But it is already drawing its share of detractors.

Critics say displaying dwarfs is at best misguided and at worst immoral, a throwback to times when freak shows pandered to people’s morbid curiosity.

“Are they just going there to look at curious objects?” asked Yu Haibo, who leads a volunteer organization for the disabled in Jilin Province in the northeast.

“I think it is horrible,” said Gary Arnold, the spokesman for Little People of America Inc., a dwarfism support group based in California. “What is the difference between it and a zoo?” Even the term “dwarf” is offensive to some; his organization prefers “person of short stature.”

Jean Van Wetter, the China director for Handicap International, a London-based nonprofit organization that helps the disabled, argues that integration diminishes prejudice; isolation reinforces it. “This is the kind of thing you see in China,” he said.

But there is another view, and Mr. Chen and some of his short-statured workers present it forcefully. One hundred permanently employed dwarfs, they contend, is better than 100 dwarfs scrounging for odd jobs. They insist that the audiences who see the dwarfs sing, dance and perform comic routines leave impressed by their skills and courage.

Many performers said they enjoyed being part of a community where everyone shares the same challenges, like the height of a sink. “Before, when we were at home, we didn’t know anyone our size. When we hang out together with normal-size people, we can not really do the same things,” said Wu Zhihong, 20. “So I really felt lonely sometimes.”

Mr. Chen asserts he has won support from no less than the United Nations World Peace Foundation. He displays a certificate designating his company, Yunnan Jiucai Yundie Biotech Ltd., as the “Charity Base Camp” for Kunming, the nearest city.

Supporters and critics agree on one point: the fact that the park is awash in job applications shows the disturbing dearth of opportunities for the disabled in China. Cao Yu, Mr. Chen’s assistant, says she receives three or four job inquiries a week.

“Under the current social situation in China, they really will not be able to find a better employment situation,” she said.

The notion that people with disabilities should be mainstreamed into education and ordinary jobs is still new in China, which is home to an estimated 83 million people with disabilities. The disabled seem strangely absent from the streets of Beijing or Shanghai.

Better than two in five disabled adults in China are illiterate, according to a 2006 survey by the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, a government agency. The average salary of a disabled worker is less than half that of a non-disabled worker. Only one-third of disabled people who need rehabilitation services have access to them, the survey found.

Professionals trained to aid the disabled are desperately scarce: Europe has 185 times as many physiotherapists per person as China, according to a 2008 study by Renmin University in Beijing.

Still, some indicators are improving. The number of disabled people receiving low-income benefits jumped to more than seven million in 2008 from fewer than four million in 2005.

Nearly three in four children with disabilities attended school in 2008, compared with about three in five just two years earlier. The number of disabled students in universities and technical colleges in 2008 increased by 50 percent over 2006. Still, they amounted to a mere handful, just one out of every 5,000 students.

“There is a clear instruction from the government to do more,” said Mr. Van Wetter of Handicap International. “The problem is implementation.”

Mr. Chen said his employees had gained self-respect and self-sufficiency. “It doesn’t really matter to me what other people say,” he said. “The question is whether meeting me has changed their lives.”

Ms. Wu said it had. Nicknamed Itty Bitty, she is just 3 feet, 9 inches tall. Before Mr. Chen hired her, she developed photos and worked as a telephone operator, jobs she said deliberately kept her out of public view.

Now, she said, she sometimes see spectators tear up during the performances. If they laugh, she said, it is because the routine is funny, not out of ridicule.

One theme of the show is the need to overcome hardships — a lesson Mr. Chen says he believes is too often forgotten as Chinese families grow richer. And there is the Swan Lake parody, a crowd pleaser in which male dwarfs dress up in pink tights and tutus and wiggle their derrières.

“The first time I wore that, I felt really awkward,” said Chen Ruan, 20, who used to collect refuse with his parents. “But then I got up on stage and people liked it. People were applauding and I felt proud.”

The park, 40 minutes by car from Kunming, is not yet profitable. One recent chilly afternoon, only a few dozen spectators showed up. Performers hope for bigger crowds.

“At first I thought it was surreal,” Zhang Furong, 38, a lead actor. “But the strongest emotion I felt was here, we are among equals.”

Xiyun Yang and Li Bibo contributed research.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/world/...warfs.html
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If he had rescued them from the vermicious knids, then there wouldn't be any issue. The question is: Can they make chocolate?

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it would be karmic

Quote:8 reasons to visit this bizarre Buddhism theme park

Fran Wrigley 9 hours ago

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At any amusement park run by the “big two” – Disney or Universal Studios – you can be whisked away to a picturesque fairytale castle, or live out scenes from your favourite movies. But what if what you really want is to ride through the depths of hell and then go alligator fishing? Suoi Tien Cultural Amusement Park, located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, is a mammoth of a theme park that delights and baffles in equal measure. Read on for our eight reasons not to miss out!

1) The entire park is Buddhist-themed
Suoi Tien is the world’s first (and, as yet, only!) Buddhist-themed amusement park. As well as rollercoasters, parades and a water park, the resort is also chock-full of Buddhist temples and statues, reflecting this important part of Vietnamese history.

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2) It’s colourful…VERY colourful
In an obvious but well-deserved comparison, the park has been described as “Disneyland on acid” and “Disneyland gone mad”. Bright colours, neon and gold abound. In place of Mickey and friends, Suoi Tien has a team of mascots with mythical origins: a dragon, a unicorn, a tortoise and a phoenix. Do they give autographs, though…?

3) It’s huge – but not in the way you might expect
At over 100 hectares, the park is much too big to see in one day. It doesn’t beat the major American theme parks in terms of land mass, but inside Suoi Tien, everything – from park mascots to the Buddha’s hands – is built on a colossal scale.

4) An amazing salt-water pool
Inside the resort is Tien Dong Beach, an artificial beach and water park…

5) … watched over by a giant creepy head
Specifically, the giant creepy head of Hung King. Because carving his likeness out of (presumably fake) rock is the best way to pay homage to the emperor. But where’s the rest of his body…?

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6) Alligator fishing
It’s not uncommon for theme parks in the West to have a petting zoo, where visitors can cuddle up to rabbits, or feed snacks to domesticated animals. At Suoi Tien, however, you don’t feed the chickens – you feed chicken to alligators as bait. There are 1,500 alligators in the pond, so presumably they’re not too hard to catch.

If you prefer your thrills to come with less direct animal-taunting, you could always get on the “Midair Bicycle” ride and pedal in the air above the alligators instead.

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7) A ride depicting the 18 Gates of Hell
One of Suoi Tien’s top attractions is a dark ride through Buddhist hell, featuring blood-curdling screams and repenting sinners. Even more amazingly, someone decided that this masterpiece of an idea should be called “Unicorn Palace”. Next door is the “Bat cave with innumerable bats”, which sounds even more hellish.

8) It has hammocks
Once you’re weary of teasing captive animals, it might be time for a rest. If this were Disney or Universal, you’d have to share your bench with a life-size cartoon character put there for a photo op. But here the rest areas are just that – designed for you to take a proper rest! Rent a hammock for an hour and reflect on the extraordinary and terrifying things you saw today. Don’t have nightmares…

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▼ Dragons abound, as does gold.

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▼ The attention to detail is impressive, too. But what happened to that horse in the top right?

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▼ Your annual quota of creepy model people, all in one place!
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Moved to top of bucket list.
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Quote:Do you Know? A Park in Thailand represents the Hell of Buddhism
By NewsGram NewsDesk2 -
June 25, 2016

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  • In Buddhism, a sinner remains in hell until his/her sins are not spent by punishment
  • Naraka has 8 large pits and each pit have 16 sub areas forming a total of 136 pits altogether
  • In the Park, corrupts are given the heads of pig, and thieves are given head of birds and then warden axe them off
Buddhism is a religion of peace but as hell and heaven go side by side, it has its own representation of horror as well. Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden or Thailand’s horror park represents the Hell as described in Buddhism. Known as ‘Naraka’, this park in Thailand represents the hell of Buddhism.

The park is well known for sending chills down your spine. Located in Saen Suk village of Thailand- located 100 kilometers from Bangkok, the park features a statue of Lord Buddha at the entrance with a sign “Welcome to Hell”. The statue of Buddha is followed by two devils- a man and a woman.

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In Buddhism, a sinner remains in hell until his/her sins are not spent by punishment. According to Traiphum Phra Ruang, a newly dead person is taken to Phya Yom, who will tell your fate after comparing the good deeds and bad deeds.

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Phya Yom. Image Source: thailanguagetuition.co.uk


According to it, Naraka has 8 large pits and each pit has 16 sub areas forming a total of 136 pits altogether. Each sin has a separate pit and a separate punishment. The wardens were found wearing Buddhist clothes and are Buddhist monks. The statues in the park are of size of a human being.

The park depicts punishment of each sin. For example, a woman is penetrated with a spear to compensate for birth control and injection. Cheating is punished by removal of eyes. A rapist is punished by shoving tridents at his genitals. The murderers are punished with a spear penetrating through their heart. For regular alcoholics, boiling oil is poured down their throats. Those who undermine Buddhism have their head axed. Corrupts are given the heads of pig, and thieves are given head of birds and then wardens axe them off. Some statues shows that they burn sinners in boiling oil.

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Punishment scene (source: www.atlas obscura.com)

The most interesting part of the garden is a donation box located at the end of the park. It states that whoever gives alms and yellow robes to Buddhist monks will be born in the religious period of Bodhisattva. Near each sin, there is a donation box, which encourages forgiveness with the help of charity.

Despite of depicting punishments, the park also encourages a sense of being good in an individual. It shows that good people are rewarded with good food, flower and also Lord Buddha smiling over prayer of sinners. The park also accompanies shrines of Lord Shiva sitting on Kailash mountain.

-This report is compiled by a staff-writer at NewsGram.
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Your job is never dull.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm

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