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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16115459" data-attributes="member: 158020"><img src="http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3121/aii0.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist Temple<img src="http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3121/aii0.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple of humongous size in Khlong  Luang District, 16 kilometers north of Bangkok International Airport in  Bangkok, Thailand. It is the center of the controversial Dhammakaya  Movement, a Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s, that has been attacked  for its unconventional religious teachings and commercialization of  Buddhism. The unorthodox $1billion religious monument looks more like a  spaceship, or a sports stadium or even a UFO rather than resembling a  traditional Thai temple. At the center of the structure is a  huge dome (the Dhammakaya Cetiya) covered with 300,000 gold-coated  bronze statues of Buddha -- another 700,000 are nestled inside the  temple. The golden dome is the Memorial Hall of the sect’s founder,  Phramonkolthepmuni. This is surrounded by a massive circular concrete  platform which functions as the Meditation Amphitheatre. The entire  complex is located on a thousand-acres piece of land. Mass rituals and meditations are held everyday, helped by thousands  of volunteers. During Sundays and major religious festivals, nearly  100,000 worshippers congregate at the complex. Already a community of  3,000 monks, novices, laymen and laywomen live within Wat Phra  Dhammakaya making it the largest temple in Thailand in terms of  inhabitants. Despite outlandish ceremonies and national coverage  of these events through television channels, Dhammakaya has managed to  keep under the world's radar. The four-decade old religious cult has  only recently scaled up to a spectacle that it’s now, with a two-week  nationwide retreat held on Dec. 25, 2010, where an estimated 200,000  people attended. <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-O3c5g-dmjF8/UsgepE8pCXI/AAAAAAAAu4A/W93hojNRL9c/wat-phra-dhammakaya-21%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o9OlM8r-Dso/UsgetpUbExI/AAAAAAAAu4I/wHoSzpYlAx4/wat-phra-dhammakaya-22%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-BtPondWzcrc/Usgeynz0MNI/AAAAAAAAu4Q/2uIPJ5Kvr2w/wat-phra-dhammakaya-1%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-C8ll5VgbXig/Usge4dNcc-I/AAAAAAAAu4Y/dyjattOeqzQ/wat-phra-dhammakaya-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0fzcPqpTBNs/Usge9oIAJRI/AAAAAAAAu4g/7lO6YDYcAFQ/wat-phra-dhammakaya-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Q-F9lsW1Ylo/UsgfB7HaKZI/AAAAAAAAu4o/Be6V5SpHWs0/wat-phra-dhammakaya-5%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-nUJaMYRTRG8/UsgfGderkxI/AAAAAAAAu4w/Ez0igIaHuUs/wat-phra-dhammakaya-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CCnSmPHRo9M/UsgfLGAJR5I/AAAAAAAAu44/k7n_hNVU53c/wat-phra-dhammakaya-7%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nCL_RwzGIQI/UsgfPONtGRI/AAAAAAAAu5A/l7RQdRUuvXE/wat-phra-dhammakaya-8%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-l5tY7c7ukaI/UsgfUc2dDFI/AAAAAAAAu5I/CeOIwINiND0/wat-phra-dhammakaya-10%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8J8RFAjNftY/UsgfW-pjNJI/AAAAAAAAu5Q/Kp7CF9M7XtE/wat-phra-dhammakaya-12%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-X-gV7wqFcO4/UsgfaxO9NyI/AAAAAAAAu5Y/v3v7QLduaWQ/wat-phra-dhammakaya-13%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-eVR8l57QEPI/Usgff2_nZ8I/AAAAAAAAu5g/WQ_ySmr9Asw/wat-phra-dhammakaya-14%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gaCTCEKxpXM/UsgfmPW_0vI/AAAAAAAAu5o/e8dwMlQ5twU/wat-phra-dhammakaya-16%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-RA9HP6AQKaw/UsgfsiA_JnI/AAAAAAAAu5w/Le5YocboFgk/wat-phra-dhammakaya-17%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SBogc_cFgYE/UsggMRsy79I/AAAAAAAAu54/Y7ZlvpqIkdM/wat-phra-dhammakaya-18%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7ki7UYSPaTQ/UsggSTNST5I/AAAAAAAAu6A/j4vrBZisH-c/wat-phra-dhammakaya-19%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5kZrC_UKi00/UsggX2rpGhI/AAAAAAAAu6I/vW-04KaRyoA/wat-phra-dhammakaya-20%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vR30RiFLBOk/UsggcJ54LTI/AAAAAAAAu6Q/kPSnXMsen08/wat-phra-dhammakaya-11%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QHDJE2ALSbw/Usggh7SkA7I/AAAAAAAAu6Y/RKGw78yM-RM/wat-phra-dhammakaya-3%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

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