[Buddha-l] potala replica, chengde, china

[David Living]

I particularly like the fake mountains on one of the pictures. 
Is it full size or just a little model? Its hard to make out from the pictures.
Maybe they could have a model Hornby steam train puffing through it or coming out of a tunnel somewhere.

Dave Living/Aryacitta
Southend on Sea UK

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>    1. Re: China plans theme park ousdie Lhasa-------- (Erik Hoogcarspel)
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> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:40:30 +0200
> From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] China plans theme park ousdie Lhasa--------
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> Thanks Chris,
> 
> so much for communist originality right? But we are talking theme parks 
> here after the Indian videocoach and Guantanamo Bay the most 
> sophisticated torture instrument for innocents.
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> erik
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> Op 23-07-12 14:25, Christopher Fynn schreef:
> > Erik
> >
> > The Chinese have already built several replicas of the Potala in Lhasa
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomad710/3783889567
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikingrivercruises/4627568565/
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> > http://peterwilkie.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Xn9oL4z9IJU
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> > - C
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> > On 19/07/2012, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> Perhaps also stupid. I mean there are lots of Chinese middle class
> >> people who now have the money to go somewhere and they do not mind to
> >> stand in line for hours and visit the most crappy theme parks. But I
> >> wonder if you can go on for ever, if there will not come a time that
> >> even the most insensitive Chinese grow tired of theme parks or that they
> >> discover that it is more convenient to build one near Beijing.
> >> They build replica of European towns but who would build a replica near
> >> the original? Perhaps they are planning to destroy all of Lhasa?
> >>
> >> erik
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