In China, they offended the feelings of believers

Residents of the Chinese city of Jinan (Eastern Province of Shandun), known for their religiosity, were recently shocked by an incident that occurred in their hometown. One fine day, they saw on the wall of a building located in one of the busy trading areas of Jinan, two sculptural images of the Buddhas, as if climbing on a steep surface, reports SCMP.com .

The stolen lesson, behind which the sacred characters were captured, are still half a bastard. The trouble that the author of the sculptures introduced them completely naked. What did the artist who depicted the Buddha in this form mean is unknown. It is only known that these images were placed on the restaurant wall.

The indignant townspeople complained to the city authorities, and the statues in the result were taken away.

The Chinese blogger Sina Weibo still managed to photograph sculptures and hung them on the Internet. Immediately, they became a real hit with users of the network. The history of naked Buddhas was reported even in the news of the National Radio and Television of the PRC, as well as in the information of the Beijing Youth Daily youth publication, which did not express indignation, calling scandalous images works of sculpture.

Believers practicing Zen Buddhism were offended. Some of them were brought to tears. “I burst into tears when I saw a naked Buddha, climbing the wall!” Wrote on the blog one of the inhabitants of the local Zen -Buddhist monastery. “Why does a people with a thousand -year history do not respect their culture so much?”

True, many took photos with humor. And in the restaurant, on the wall of which sculptures were placed, in honor of this event they came up with a luxurious dish containing the most expensive gifts of the sea, calling it "the Buddha jumps over the wall" - in memory of the ill -fated sculptures. One of the journalists summed up the result of the result, stating that the conservative city of Jinan finally got into the first lines of the news.