Comments | chu_hi: Buddha Museum in Sri Lanka

chu_hi

Buddha Museum in Sri Lanka

Apr 20, 2005 02:40

This museum is more like a warehouse, but it's full of valuable and beautiful treasures. Some of the shrines and buddhas were actually made of gold or completely covered in diamonds. (Sorry, no pictures.) There were elephant tusks that were about 6 feet long, which probably came from elephant graveyards rather than from living elephants. Don says ( Read more... )

strangler figs, colombo, sri lanka

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snogmonkey April 19 2005, 18:40:28 UTC

Man, as usual, your photos are beautiful! i need to tell you that more often.

chu_hi April 19 2005, 18:50:53 UTC

Thanks, Yuko! I'm glad you like them. <3

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chu_hi April 19 2005, 21:28:45 UTC

Thanks! I like the pile of fuzzy animals.

mymichelle April 19 2005, 19:17:00 UTC

Ooh, I can't wait for the Kenya pics (these are nice too)!

It makes me sad to see elephant tusks, but it's quite possible they were taken from elephant graveyards. Especially with the way elephants mourn their own dead. I hope to go to Kenya someday with my work, and see the animals I take care of in the wild, rather than in a zoo.

chu_hi April 19 2005, 21:34:30 UTC

It made me sad, too, but I believe that very few of the ones I saw were poached. As for Kenya, I didn't go to the preserve this trip because they were asking too much for the 'safari,' but I'm going back in a few days and might do the park then. This time, I really just went shopping at the markets; I bought lots of handicrafts (you'd like the rhino-shaped earrings I got, judging from your icon, and I bought Don an ebony hippo) and fruit and flowers.

subapooh April 19 2005, 20:31:52 UTC

hrmmm i need to read up on my buddhism, i could have sworn gauthama found enlightement under a banyan tree, amazing picture, i'm espically fond of the mini ivory elephant to the right in the second pic. :D

chu_hi April 19 2005, 21:37:03 UTC

'Banyan' is another name for fig trees, so you're spot on!

subapooh April 19 2005, 21:39:38 UTC

see i learned something new today...i've always been brough up calling them banyan, since they are not only all over india, esp in the south, but it's the official tree of the country. :)

chu_hi April 19 2005, 21:46:40 UTC

Cool! Now I'VE learned something! (Damn, I wanna go to India...)

Incidentally, Don has registered asvattha.com =)

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scottks April 19 2005, 23:55:14 UTC

What's with the Oingo Boingo skeletons in the third picture? :)

doc_cathode April 20 2005, 00:22:37 UTC

You are forgetting Buddha's sermon to diamond traders, "It's a dead man's party."

chu_hi April 20 2005, 04:51:00 UTC

Dude, you crack me up constantly.

chu_hi April 20 2005, 04:50:26 UTC

As Don expressed it, 'turning death into art' - making one more comfortable with loss.