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Young man me likely would have thought, “wow, cool tradition!” Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of mo
by dereg 1y ago
Young man me likely would have thought, “wow, cool tradition!”
Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of money to throw down the drain every 20 years.”
Then I did the back of envelope math. Assuming 20% comes from donations, then all you’d need is a $380m fund earning a real 3% to fund the building of the next temple. That’s very doable.
- prmoustache 1y ago9 years to build something that only last 20 seems a bit weird though.
- kylebenzle 1y ago[dead]
- anvandare 1y agoThe shrine is not the shrine. The shrine is the previous generation teaching the next to build the shrine. So if the shrine were to fall, then the shrine would eventually fall. That is why the shrine must keep falling, so that it can keep being rebuilt, and so the shrine keeps standing.
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoWhat makes something weird? Something is “weird” when it is absurd, which is to say something that is aimless or has an aim that is not in the service of an objective good. There’s a deviance from the nature of the thing, like intentionally growing a tumor on your forehead or having a tumor growing out of your forward and then happily refusing to have it removed. Otherwise, what is said of things that are merely unconventional. So in this case, is there not a purpose? Is the purpose not spiritual and instructive in some sense? Are you not imposing an inappropriate tacit goal onto this practice? Or perhaps you find it weird because it is nowhere to be found within your conventions?
- prmoustache 1y ago> Or perhaps you find it weird because it is nowhere to be found within your conventions? probably.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoRegarding the Ise Shrine (伊勢神宮), the practice is called Sengū (遷宮) related to preserving mystical spirits, supporting trades, tradition, and respecting the cyclical impermanence of all things. By contrast, Hōryū Gakumonji (法隆学問寺) is a 1350+ years old wooden structure more closely related to the themes of imported Buddhism long before the shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) but in Japanese style. There are/were very large buddha figures carved into rock throughout Iran, Afghanistan, China during the Mongol period and also semi-contemporaneously c. ~7th century Japan's Usuki Stone Buddhas (臼杵磨崖仏). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seng%C5%AB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seng%C5%AB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu_bunri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu_bunri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuki_Stone_Buddhas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuki_Stone_Buddhas
- Yeul 1y agoNot at all unusual. In Europe we have 500 year old buildings that need constant renovations. Finish one part of the building and the next part needs doing. And on and on it goes.
- packetlost 1y agoA big part of the benefit seems to be in ensuring the next generation is capable of the craftsmanship necessary to ensure the shrine continues to stand. If you don't continue to rebuild, then the skills atrophy until they're lost forever.
- samarthr1 1y agoThis is something us Indian's have been unfortunate to find out. Our stonemanship has unfortunately disappeared from lack of state support in the times the subcontinent was under foreign rule.
- mrlonglong 1y agoOver in Europe, when the Notre Dame cathedral burned down, ancient 13th century skills had to be revived to rebuild it. Even the lead needed to be made traditionally, noone else in the world except a small company in the UK who could. Ten tons of UK lead now adorns the roof.
- readthenotes1 1y agoRoughly $20M/year for 1300 years. That really does add up to quite a bit of opportunity cost.
- Ekaros 1y agoMakes Stonehenge looks like most sensible approach. Build it one time and then it will be there. Not that Egyptians with stone in dessert is bad either.