{"id":46148,"date":"2015-08-17T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46148"},"modified":"2015-08-17T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:19:10","slug":"christ-on-a-cathedral-buddha-at-the-printshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46148","title":{"rendered":"Christ on a Cathedral, Buddha at the Printshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; art &#038; tech interfacing with religion ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s news, religious statuary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-statues-christ-buddha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-statues-christ-buddha.png\" alt=\"SPEC statues christ buddha\" width=\"602\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-statues-christ-buddha.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-statues-christ-buddha-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>To the left:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/vladivostok-to-get-tallest-statue-of-jesus-christ-in-the-world\/\">Vladivostok \u2018to get tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Vladivostok, the monument will be composed of two parts: the statue itself and the pedestal housing a cathedral in honour of Archangel Michael. <\/p>\n<p>The monument stands 50 metres taller than the world famous \u2018Christ the Redeemer\u2019 in Rio de Janeiro, and two metres higher than \u2018The Christ the King\u2019 in Lisbon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that gives it pride (a deadly siubn, no?) of place.<\/p>\n<p>To the right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/japanese-temples-stop-theft-by-replacing-priceless-statues-with-3d-printed-copies\/\">Japanese temples stop theft by replacing priceless statues with 3D-printed copies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The abbot of a Buddhist temple in Jiangjin City was concerned about the potential theft of a valuable statue of Amitabha Buddha. After learning about 3D-printing technology, he made a copy of the statue and gave the original to a local museum for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way to permanently guard the Buddha statue all of the time,\u201d said the abbot. \u201cEven though this 3D print is just a replica of the original statue, as long as it resides within our temple people can use it as a shrine nonetheless.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The image of a 3-D Buddha printing is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/302375019948062\/photos\/a.305477042971193.1073741829.302375019948062\/363681403817423\">Art Program at Seton Hill University<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; art &#038; tech interfacing with religion ] . In today&#8217;s news, religious statuary: ** To the left: Vladivostok \u2018to get tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world\u2019 In Vladivostok, the monument will be composed of two parts: the statue itself and the pedestal housing a cathedral in honour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[772,948,384,701,649,526,497,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-d-printing","category-architecture","category-art","category-buddhism","category-buddhist","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46155,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions\/46155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}