The Birthplace of the Buddha and Other Failures

This talk looks at five major Buddhist sites in Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, built over 2,500 years, that reveal a variety of strategies for memorializing Buddhist relics and historical moments. These massive projects range from museums to parks, from golden reliquaries to statues twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. Looking at both the visionaries that planned these sites and the range of activities for Buddhist pilgrims and tourists, we will see the ways in which the Buddhist teachings of impermanence and non-attachment are negotiated and debated.
Speakers: Justin McDaniel, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities, Religious Studies UPenn

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Santa World in Finland is taking notes

[@mercster]

I was glad to find this channel today, initially... however this is the third video with frustratingly bad audio. Not as bad as the other two, but, why does this guy end up trailing off into mumbles half the time. This is a fancy rich museum right? Why put up videos of talks if noone can hear?

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How many forests were sacrificed to fuel this one man's mad projects? Reminds me of Easter Island, how the people razed the lanscape to create ever more impressive statues...before they died out or abandoned the denuded island.
Human delusion is a meteor strike with cornices.

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tf is a book-a-roo

[@sledant]

What a horrible insensitive title for a public video.

[@nunyanunya4147]

missed the point. personably offended. learned nothing. how topical.

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Note my thumbnail is Ra the blue Kachina a sun behind earth in a CME behind us this is why we tilted not global warming as NASA claim's