[Buddha-l] New pagoda with relics being built in Mumbai

[jkirk]

Hello Joanna

Thank you for the article. This both interesting and strange that women are 
prohibited. On a trip to Burma I noticed a few pagoda also prohibitted women 
in certain areas. When I questioned a Burmese about this, he said it related 
to menstration.

Also interesting is that this structure cost $22,000,000 to complete!

Regards

Bankei

On 03/11/06, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

Excerpts:
"The site where the relics are kept is out of bounds for women."
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Greetings Bankei,

Yes, the same might be the case with the Mumbai pagoda's restriction.

All that money is nothing for Sri Goenka, who is very rich, and no doubt has 
a list of equally wealthy donors. But I was bemused by one detail: it is 
built of stones, not with reinforced steel, etc. One wonders what might 
happen during an earthquake. Stones aren't much better than kiln-fired 
bricks when it comes to earthquakes. But also, a lot of concrete and 
reinforced steel cosntruction in world earthquake zones has been so shoddily 
done that big buildings collapse anyway.
Best, Joanna








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