While we were traveling to the village near Chiang Rai we visited a Buddhist temple known as the "White Temple". The architecture was amazing, but scary. Most Thai temples are a combination of red and gold with many other contrasting colors. This temple was completely white with mirrors to reflect the light.
They have a moat around the temple that has hands coming up from it that are people grasping to get out of hell. It was very scary looking to see all these hand reaching up.
(LOOK CLOSELY FOR THE HANDS REACHING UP)
Our pictures are not good because they were doing construction and we couldn't get close. The architect is a rich Thai man that is seeking to earn merit by building this temple.
We weren't allowed to take pictures inside the temple, but the walls were one large mural of modern movies and events(Star Wars, Matrix and 9/11 Twin Towers) and Buddhist symbols. We were told that the mural represents how modern Western culture has destroyed Thai culture.
(This is a warning that drinking leads to hell)
(Same thing except smoking)
You can't see it very well, but there is a four sided skull with a liquor bottle on top. The other picture has a skeleton face with a horn coming out of it and hands reaching up from hell.
This temple reminds us of 1 Timothy 3:5 "holding to a form of 1agodliness, although they have denied its power"
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Glad to hear you got there in one piece. I heard it was going to be 72 degrees and no humidity for July. May not be true. Everything is fine here. Ma Gregg got an epideral and she is getting another one on Monday. Go figure. Kristy and I golfed today. Megan won her to races in Utah on her quad. God Bless Dad
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