Car Overturns After Smashing Up Buddha Statues

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:20 am

Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): On November 3, 2020, at 11:25 pm, a high-speed Range Rover car, plate PP2BI-1669, overturned after smashing a number of Buddha statues on Hanoi road, Sangkat Kmounh, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh.

The local people reported that before the incident, a Range Rover car was driven on the Hanoi road from south to north at high speed when it smashed into some Buddha statues, causing the car to overturn. Two men in the car got seriously injured and were sent to the hospital. Many Buddha statues were broken.

The police went to the scene to check the accident and took the damaged car to the police station, waiting to sort out the problem later.

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:43 am

At risk of being struck down by lightning..
looking at these photographs leaves me cold.

Like most people, a good Buddha image can bring a "sacred" touch to my day, and a moment of blessed peace of mind.
and i respect the reverence of others even if i think eastern Buddhism has long lost its way.
Theism and idolatry are the opposite to my understanding of Buddha's teachings, but that's just me.

I find it very hard to soften tho, to the moulded concrete travesties that are the bedrock of modern Khmer religious artefacts and architecture.
Moulded concrete and plaster just don't do Buddhist art very well.
even worse when adorned with enamel gloss paint.

DaveG · Post by **DaveG** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:25 am

It could have been a gathering of people and children, these fuckin idiots deserve to be locked up for dangerous driving, but no, they have money so all is cool

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:44 am

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:43 am At risk of being struck down by lightning..
looking at these photographs leaves me cold.

Like most people, a good Buddha image can bring a "sacred" touch to my day, and a moment of blessed peace of mind.
and i respect the reverence of others even if i think eastern Buddhism has long lost its way.
Theism and idolatry are the opposite to my understanding of Buddha's teachings, but that's just me.

I find it very hard to soften tho, to the moulded concrete travesties that are the bedrock of modern Khmer religious artefacts and architecture.
Moulded concrete and plaster just don't do Buddhist art very well.
even worse when adorned with enamel gloss paint.

What makes you think they are moulded? They don't seem to have any rebar in them and I've seen many statues built up that way in layers. The cracks are very clean, but I'm not convinced it is stone. For those who can afford it you can certainly get sandstone replicas of any statue you like. It takes a long time to make these, hundreds of hours. Even cement statues take a lot of finishing. Nearly every monument here has been built from bricks and plaster, at least since the 13th century. And the original temples here were apparently painted in gaudy colors with gilded domes.

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:42 am

KHMER SCULPTURE
Cement Nirvana: Cambodia’s Buddhist statues

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/cement-n ... t-statues/

newkidontheblock · Post by **newkidontheblock** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:20 am

Don’t worry, those rich fools are screwed. Karma will get them. Either in this life, or the next.

Destroyed Buddha once is bad. Destroying Buddha multiple times?

Their fates are sealed.

Especially when their Khmer neighbors knows that it was THEM.

My theory, anyway.

BigDee · Post by **BigDee** » Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:08 am

Still at the sandstone shop, so all good, not been blessed as yet so not officially a Buddha - just looks like one lol

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