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To: cosmicforce who wrote (97974)	3/18/2005 8:58:00 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) of 108807

Are you sure that life is considered illusory in Buddhism. I thought they considered it very real but overwhelmingly negative and to be escaped. Buddhism certainly is interesting. It has no god it is said, but has lots of heavenly beings and demons. It has multiple heavens and hells - all temporary places from which one is released when one's karma is used up. Here's some interesting sites (with lots of pics) on Buddhist depictions of hell (for some reason I couldn't find corresponding Buddhist heavenly depictions): thaiworldview.com Pictures of Buddhist hell museums commonly found in Thai temples - lots of great pictures depicting the fitting punishments of the wicked - CAUTION NUDITY jehpin.com Haw Par Villa - Buddhist Hell Museum in Singapore (many great pictures) boingboing.net www3.tky.3web.ne.jp Buddhist Hell Dioramas in Japan boingboing.net Buddhist Hell Theme Park in Vietnam Perusing these sites has set me thinking. Here in this country we have many tens of millions of Baptists, Pentecostals, and other conservative Christians, yet we do not have a single Christian hell museum or theme park. I wonder why that is? While Buddhism, this esoteric non-worldly philosophical faith so attractive to liberal westerners repelled by the primitiveness of their own religious culture, has loads of them. Interesting, huh?

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