This guy, Guy Laramee, makes amazing stuff from books. Here's a Buddhist themed one I wanted to share.
More here: http://io9.com/5919043/breathtaking-lan ... from-books
Books carved into shape of a cave temple
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Books carved into shape of a cave temple
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
Wow! Thanks for sharing, James.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.
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Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
That's pretty amazing. Though it does feel like sacrilege.
"If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would the stain of miserliness overcome their minds. Even if it were their last bite, their last mouthful, they would not eat without having shared."
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Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
I think the books are old encyclopaedias, of which plenty can be found at your local junk shop, last stop before the garbage dump.Kare wrote:To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.
They have an enormous pile of crappy old britannicas and World Books at my local Rags 2 Riches Op Shop. $5 a set, and that's optimistic - they'll be thrown in the recycling before long.
Better to use them for art than feed the anaerobic bacteria in a landfill.
I used to think all books should be treated with care and respect, but then I read Dan Brown.
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
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Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
I wonder if he was a termite in a previous life?
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Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
I see. I apologize for overreacting a bit.James the Giant wrote:I think the books are old encyclopaedias, of which plenty can be found at your local junk shop, last stop before the garbage dump.Kare wrote:To use books for this decorative purpose is brute stupidity. I would call it vandalism, except for the fact that this would be slandering the real Vandals. They were never THAT stupid.
They have an enormous pile of crappy old britannicas and World Books at my local Rags 2 Riches Op Shop. $5 a set, and that's optimistic - they'll be thrown in the recycling before long.
Better to use them for art than feed the anaerobic bacteria in a landfill.
I used to think all books should be treated with care and respect, but then I read Dan Brown.
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Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
Beautiful!
Are they for sale? I know, craving, but I would be interested in the Buddhist themed art works; i.e., wholesome craving . . .
Some of the comments were kind of funny. (Warning: not pc):
Are they for sale? I know, craving, but I would be interested in the Buddhist themed art works; i.e., wholesome craving . . .
Some of the comments were kind of funny. (Warning: not pc):
*WARNING. ATHEIST POST.*
It's the best thing done with a bible yet. 6/17/12 10:47am
Amen, brother.
now that's what I call a 'Hole'y Bible
ba-dum..crash
Re: Books carved into shape of a cave temple
But he'd better keep away from my complete set of the Tipitaka in 45 volumes!
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