Thursday 23 July 2020

Hell Garden At Wat Muang

The best collection of figures at Wat Muang is reserved for the Hell Garden, a special section devoted to themes of torture and horrible misery. The scenes serve as a warning to those folks who stray from the divine ways of Buddhism. Or the figures are artisans run amok.

The Hell ambassadors, all sunken chested and long tongued.


The most hellish thing? Busloads of school kids are shuffled through the place. Never too early to scare 'em straight. Dogs are in on the pain delivery.

Oh, the variety of hell punishment. Mere stabbing and puncturing are so vanilla hell. Tie your hands up, saw your arms off, now we're talking a good recipe for abuse.


Let the punishment fit the crime. Squeezing your belly, probably for pregnancy. Getting meta. After your head is chopped off, you gotta walk around with it on display. Tricky.

Looking down at pure hell. Lesson learned!

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