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Termite "Buddha" draws thousands

Posted by Rachel on 07 Jul 2010 in

Thousands of Vietnamese have flocked to a rubber farm in the southern Binh Duong province of Vietnam to see the work of a group of very unusual sculptors---termites. The insects have created a nest that vaguely resembles the Buddha sitting in meditation posture.

Via bigpondnews.com:

'Police and local authorities asked them to leave but others keep coming,' Vo Van Cuong, of the Rubber Company of Ben Cat, said.

He said thousands of people from southern Binh Duong province and neighbouring areas had rushed to the forest site.

The 40cm tall nest resembles Buddha sitting in meditation, Dantri International news website reported.

DTI News reports that local authorities have requested that Ben Cat District’s Buddhism representatives move the termite nest to Long Hung Pagoda so that "order can be restored in the area where it was discovered."

Images: www.dtinews.vn

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John's picture
Reply by John on July 8, 2010, 4:25 pm

I think it looks rather phalic...but not in a good, spire-like, cathedral way...

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Reply by Sharmila on July 8, 2010, 1:39 pm

i kind of like these stories, mixed in with the doom and gloom that constitutes news..

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Reply by Electric Akira on July 7, 2010, 5:48 pm

The termites were all enlightened gawkers in a past life. But I don't think they would like the candles.

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Reply by Electric Akira on July 7, 2010, 5:47 pm

The termites were all enlightened gawkers in a past life.

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Reply by Julie on July 7, 2010, 4:38 pm

The wisdom of insect crowds.

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Reply by Math Geek on July 7, 2010, 3:21 pm

I think it's cool... why are so many of the Tricycle readers so serious??

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Reply by johnny on July 7, 2010, 3:09 pm

Well, there's a difference between coming to see an oddity and coming to worship a termite nest. It is pretty cool looking.

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Reply by Mark O'Leary on July 7, 2010, 2:06 pm

Ugh. Pareidolia is just foolishness, whether it's Jesus in a grilled cheese, the Virgin Mary in a hospital window, or the Buddha in a bug's nest. Pleasepleaseplease--distance yourselves from this nonsense.

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