[Buddha-l] A Maitreya theme park projected for Kushinagar--goodgrief!

[jkirk]

A few years ago when they first started collecting money for this Maitreya
project this was a friends reaction...

<http://chris.fynn.googlepages.com/TheMetogpaProject.pdf>

- Chris

Too many folks don't understand that whatever increase in revenues accrue
from tourists do not go to the majority of the people, only to merchants and
rich property owners.  If a few poor locals can construct a few more tea
stalls/cigarette stands, that doesn't help the education of their children
or food production from their missing lands one iota. The wasteland
surrounding Godzilla and the Maitreya image in your friend's interesting
cartoon are basically the cultural result of such foreign theme park
invasions.

    

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