Wat Rong Khu
November 1, 2007
This temple is a kind of asian "sagrada familia". The builder, a famous artist, uses the revenues of selling his pictures and the donations of the visitors to build this temple. The construction is said to take some 10 years more to finish...
It has a very interesting mixture of traditional and modern elements - the hands symbolize the worries of the earth, there are arms with expensive wristwatches, red fingernails, skeleton hands...the stairs lead up to the nirvana, the temple building. inside on the paintings are also traditional elements mixed with celular phones, Keanu Reeves as Neo, Cars and Weapons as the dark side of live, on the top of all buddha that helps to overcome the worries of life.
It has a very interesting mixture of traditional and modern elements - the hands symbolize the worries of the earth, there are arms with expensive wristwatches, red fingernails, skeleton hands...the stairs lead up to the nirvana, the temple building. inside on the paintings are also traditional elements mixed with celular phones, Keanu Reeves as Neo, Cars and Weapons as the dark side of live, on the top of all buddha that helps to overcome the worries of life.
