"Foreign owners need educating about Buddhist feelings" as Buddha head on beach angers Thais

[rooster59]

"Foreign owners need educating about Buddhist feelings" as Buddha head on beach angers Thais

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Sanook reported on a Facebook post that showed a Buddha's head being used as decoration at a resort on the beach at Bo Phut in Koh Samui.

 

The head , facing inland under some pine trees, was among people clad in swimwear on the beach adding to the feeling that it was an inappropriate place to have such a thing.

 

Sanook said that comment online after the post by "Saipars Saipars" was widespread with people suggesting that the owners of the resort must be foreigners who don't know about the feelings of the majority of Thais who are Buddhists.

 

Many said they should be visited by the authorities to educate them about how inappropriate this was, said Sanook. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-02-10

[Enoon]

 

"Many said they should be visited by the authorities to educate them about how inappropriate this was,"

 

Is that what Buddha would have done?

 

Is that what Buddha would suggest they do?

 

It's just a lump of stone folks.........let it go...........detach yourselves.

 

 

[poohy]

Because Thais are so religious??

 

indoctrinated and xenophobic yes

[Darcula]

Fined - 2 bottles of Red Fanta.

 

Next.

[PatOngo]

38 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Sanook said that comment online after the post by "Saipars Saipars" was widespread with people suggesting that the owners of the resort must be foreigners who don't know about the feelings of the majority of Thais who are Buddhists.

 

Must be foreigners! Did anyone care to check and confirm? Thai investigative journalism at it's, well, standard level!

[George Bowman]

[ezzra]

It is often said that those who shout the louder and put themselves as the guardians

of people's faith, religion and morals, are the biggest offenders and hypocreats...

[canuckamuck]

The Buddha was famously opposed to bikinis and sand. He has no problem bouncing around on the dashboard of a Bangkok taxi however.

[oldhippy]

And to think that the iconic buddha face is only a Greek's artist impression of what Buddha might have looked like....

 

[petedk]

Even if the owners are foreigners, I am sure the staff that placed the Buddha there were Thais. Did they say anything to the owners? 

[Zonka]

It is also innapropriate for monks to enbezzle money, rape minors, steal underwear from a washing line, use and deal in drugs..........

[OmarZaid]

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The Buddha was famously opposed to bikinis and sand. He has no problem bouncing around on the dashboard of a Bangkok taxi however.

He was also opposed to idols  .... Ooops!

[Dukeleto]

How can it be foreign owned if a landed Resort must be 51% Thai owned!

[Proboscis]

3 hours ago, missoura said:

Not a depiction of the Lord Buddha

[sitanonchai]

Selective indignation is mainly the Thai perception towards foreigners.

 

[bbbbooboo]

hmmmm.......sure

[Borzandy]

Thais like more garbage on the beach than a Buddha.

[dotpoom]

I sometimes wonder about how "outraged" Thai people  seem to get on social media over certain issues...but never appear to vent the same outrage when it is badly needed in a public place where they can actually do something about a bad situation. I am talking about "loud noice" of course and the lifelong damage it can do to children's ears.

   I was at the week long market in the College grounds in Banampur a few days ago. Many families strolling  around with babies in arms and strollers.....when all of a sudden "music" starting blareing out, it was, without exaragation, off the ricktar scale. I have Tinnitus, bad hearing , lived here 18 yrs. so am used to it in Thailand but never ever anything like this. I had to actually leave the market with my hands covering my ears. I asked the wife....why do Thai people never approach the person (DJ in this case) responsible for this racket and ask them to lower it down for the sake of their babie's hearing and the irrepairable damage he is doing to their ears. She just shrugged her shoulers and said "they grow up with it" ..???

[Moonlover]

I wonder whether the complainers have heard of or visited one of the many ''Buddha Bars'' around the world, including the one in Hurghada, Egypt, which is very popular among the - hmm - Thai population there!

[hansnl]

27 minutes ago, Dukeleto said:

How can it be foreign owned if a landed Resort must be 51% Thai owned!

Bingo!

[Moonlover]

18 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

I sometimes wonder about how "outraged" Thai people  seem to get on social media over certain issues...but never appear to vent the same outrage when it is badly needed in a public place where they can actually do something about a bad situation. I am talking about "loud noice" of course and the lifelong damage it can do to children's ears.

   I was at the week long market in the College grounds in Banampur a few days ago. Many families strolling  around with babies in arms and strollers.....when all of a sudden "music" starting blareing out, it was, without exaragation, off the ricktar scale. I have Tinnitus, bad hearing , lived here 18 yrs. so am used to it in Thailand but never ever anything like this. I had to actually leave the market with my hands covering my ears. I asked the wife....why do Thai people never approach the person (DJ in this case) responsible for this racket and ask them to lower it down for the sake of their babie's hearing and the irrepairable damage he is doing to their ears. She just shrugged her shoulers and said "they grow up with it" ..???

And, indeed they do 'grow up with it'.

 

Friend of mine, who understands sufficient Thai, visited a new cinema in Udon Thani. He left after 20 minutes, never to return. He said it was freezing cold and the sound so load that it hurt his ears!

 

But, you know, this not just Thailand problem. I've travelled Asia quite a lot and I found the noise levels horrendous in most of them. Top of the list has to be India. New Delhi is rated as the noisiest city in the world. At least one saving grace in Thailand is their reluctance to use the car horn.

 

I always have a few pairs of ear plugs with me when I'm out and about. My wife even keep a spare pair in her bag for me just in case.

 

Oops, sorry. I've wandered off topic again 

[Blackheart1916]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

It is often said that those who shout the louder and put themselves as the guardians

of people's faith, religion and morals, are the biggest offenders and hypocreats...

And often proven in time.

[ChrisY1]

33 minutes ago, Proboscis said:

Not a depiction of the Lord Buddha

So a Chinese Buddha image is different from a Thai Buddha?...How many buddhas are there?

[oldhippy]

4 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

So a Chinese Buddha image is different from a Thai Buddha?...How many buddhas are there?

If you are talking about images, there is today only one commonly used standard image.

It is a Greek design.

 

[Lupatria]

555 If they would put a wooden log there promising to reveal the winning lottery numbers, hundreds would come, get down on their knees and pray to it.

[Easy Come Easy Go]

4 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

"Many said they should be visited by the authorities to educate them about how inappropriate this was,"

 

Is that what Buddha would have done?

 

Is that what Buddha would suggest they do?

 

It's just a lump of stone folks.........let it go...........detach yourselves.

 

 

Exactly, I find it funny how they have a totally skewed 180 degrees view of Buddhism. Buddha would see it for what it is, a lump of stone.. and furthermore that it's empty. 

This reminds me of when I was waiting outside of a 7/11 some years ago, I saw somebody begging outside. It didn't see as if they were getting any luck at all, yet literally 50 feet away there was a Buddhist shrine statue with drinks, water, food and all sorts draped around it. Just goes to show.. 

[Brickbat]

Siddhartha must be fuming. “ Did I not say No images , No worship, Be a light to your own self”.  tsk tsk.

To be fair, hypocrites and fools exist in all organised religions.

whats the diff between a mountain that has so many Buddha statues and a beach? 

 

And a beach....what a great place for serenity and meditation! 

Ladies have objected to a Buddha statue in my bedroom. But adorn a Buddha necklace while puffing and panting!!

[Easy Come Easy Go]

11 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

If you are talking about images, there is today only one commonly used standard image.

It is a Greek design.

 

The Thai Buddha is the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, whereas the fat fellow that the Chinese adhere to is in fact Budai, a totally different being that so say was liberated to the state of being a Buddha, if I am not mistaken. 

A Buddha is not one person, it is a state of consciousness, total liberation. There were Buddhas before Siddhartha, and after. 

[soistalker]

Thai are sooooo interested  in jamming up foreigners for crimes they don't care if Thais commit, and so interested in "educating" foreigners who are ignorant of Thai ways. 

They really, really need to educated their own uneducated masses of Thai people about very nearly everything in life. Ignorance is a character trait here.

[Moonlover]

2 minutes ago, Easy Come Easy Go said:

The Thai Buddha is the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, whereas the fat fellow that the Chinese adhere to is in fact Budai, a totally different being that so say was liberated to the state of being a Buddha, if I am not mistaken. 

The Thai Buddha is as much the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, as are the many paintings and images of Jesus Christ.

 

Man's imagination writ large!