"Beat The Buddha"
HAH!
(Amateurs!)
Posted on 02/11/2017 8:30:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Beating a rock statue of Buddha to wish for a good new year and an abundant harvest, villagers in China's eastern Fujian province have a unique way of worshipping the deity.
The religious ceremony held Friday in Yuxi village is one of many in the run-up to the traditional Lantern Festival, which falls on February 11 this year.
It is a time for colourful ceremonies in the coastal province, where the Hakka people have maintained folk traditions.
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Very common superstition. In Europe they would drown the patron saint’s statue until he granted their wish for relief from a drought.
"Beat The Buddha"
HAH!
(Amateurs!)
HABAKKUK 2:18-20
18“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
19“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.
20“But the LORD is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
One could say that the Buddha statue was being Gautraumatized.
“Beat The Buddha”
That’s a new one. George Carlin missed that one!
So that’s what the young people are calling it these days?
Fifty years ago, here were little statues of the fat man on Okinawa in which you could rub his tummy for good luck.
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