X-ray reveals 180 artifacts hidden inside a Nara Buddhist statue, leaving scholars in a dilemma: should they destroy the statue to remove the artifacts?
X-ray reveals 180 artifacts hidden inside a Nara Buddhist statue, leaving scholars in a dilemma: should they destroy the statue to remove the artifacts?
Why not just tilt it over and pull it out of its ass? It likely opens on the bottom…
Yrvaa on
Joke aside, could they not cut the bottom and remove the things inside, then simply “glue” the bottom back? Even if it’s not a perfect fixing afterwards, it’s in a part that’s not visible.
sexy_bezinga on
Just don’t let Nathan Drake see this
Fusaah on
Something looks like a book or something so it may have good information or it’s just a laundry list.
tatotute on
1200 years of ancient wisdom plug straight into the body like a usb.
AppropriateBoard5155 on
Ancient alien space technology
ghost_puncher on
It depends: when does the plaque on the back say to open this time capsule?
Legal_Doughnut1391 on
Butt plug?
5043090 on
Is there a butt plug and wired headphones in that statues’ head?
SonataForm on
I know this one! Get a quarter and put it in the slot in the bottom, twist it open, and get your life savings ($3.27) out!
RelationshipLevel506 on
r/Holup
Dumbassahedratr0n on
Assembly instructions too complicated. Got buttplug stuck in head.
jdevinger on
Those things really just keep going farther in.
vig_0 on
What you think is a butt plug is more a lotus flower or something like this?
mmceorange on
Regardless, why do they need to take the stuff out? Just leave it alone.
efkuasadua on
They’re just gonna find a smaller buddha. Like the russian doll, but buddha.
paulpach on
I don’t think it is supposed to to up that deep.
xXdeltajayXx on
Leave ut alone and respect the statue as a religious object.
Environmental_Ant268 on
Hell yeah, they should it’s kept there to be studied by future students. They should definitely open the status from the back and read and translate those books
Cool_Butterscotch_88 on
Geraldo Rivera is sitll alive. Just don’t tell him we already x-rayed it. Let the vindication that awaits him inside be a surprise.
Gerry1of1 on
Buddha butt-plug up there in the brain.
They don’t have to destroy the statue. It’s a simple matter to open up the bottom, empty & refill it, then close it up again.
Sorted
mrjasjit on
Who’s gonna be the first heathen to smell the butt plug 👃 🤣
wisefool4ever on
Nobody else seeing a face on bottom right (side view x ray)
gkn_112 on
Haha, but seriously interesting. Looks like you could remove a part of the back to access the inside. Good compromise.
boost_to_get_through on
Yeah and release an ancient butt plug demon whose spirit was locked away in the object and forever imprisoned in the statue?
D-TOX_88 on
Man. He really jammed that thing way up in there before he died didn’t he.
DucklingInARaincoat on
There’s something about storing priceless artifacts that can never be seen unless you destroy the priceless artifact that contains them strikes me as the most Buddhist thing ever.
Exotic-Piece-1318 on
Seriously? Someone just made this a decade ago and put on display. Maybe style the real one.
Possibly, this is where all the Buddhist hide their stuff that they had to “give up”
Nuker-79 on
I sense a “but”
dcpanthersfan on
It’s probably no different than someone would do today, just putting random crap in a sculpture to give it the proper shape.
bigdickmidgetpony on
Butt plug
Consistent_Smile6292 on
Source??
MrsPowers94 on
Why would they hide the ancient *butt plug* in the head of the statue instead of the….*butt?*
Abject-Pangolin-7088 on
..and inside there is a scroll that reads:
_When we destroy beauty for the sake of profit, we forget that nothing we take can truly be owned. Greed promises gain, but it plants suffering—for the land, for others, and eventually for ourselves. To protect what is beautiful is to practice compassion; to restrain desire is to walk the path of wisdom_
dinodoes on
It has to have a way to open it . I mean they made it . Stuffed it with stuff and closed something on it to finish it
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It does have a flared base…
Woosh.
It is imperative the cylinder remains unharmed
No
Why not just tilt it over and pull it out of its ass? It likely opens on the bottom…
Joke aside, could they not cut the bottom and remove the things inside, then simply “glue” the bottom back? Even if it’s not a perfect fixing afterwards, it’s in a part that’s not visible.
Just don’t let Nathan Drake see this
Something looks like a book or something so it may have good information or it’s just a laundry list.
1200 years of ancient wisdom plug straight into the body like a usb.
Ancient alien space technology
It depends: when does the plaque on the back say to open this time capsule?
Butt plug?
Is there a butt plug and wired headphones in that statues’ head?
I know this one! Get a quarter and put it in the slot in the bottom, twist it open, and get your life savings ($3.27) out!
r/Holup
Assembly instructions too complicated. Got buttplug stuck in head.
Those things really just keep going farther in.
What you think is a butt plug is more a lotus flower or something like this?
Regardless, why do they need to take the stuff out? Just leave it alone.
They’re just gonna find a smaller buddha. Like the russian doll, but buddha.
I don’t think it is supposed to to up that deep.
Leave ut alone and respect the statue as a religious object.
Hell yeah, they should it’s kept there to be studied by future students. They should definitely open the status from the back and read and translate those books
Geraldo Rivera is sitll alive. Just don’t tell him we already x-rayed it. Let the vindication that awaits him inside be a surprise.
Buddha butt-plug up there in the brain.
They don’t have to destroy the statue. It’s a simple matter to open up the bottom, empty & refill it, then close it up again.
Sorted
Who’s gonna be the first heathen to smell the butt plug 👃 🤣
Nobody else seeing a face on bottom right (side view x ray)
Haha, but seriously interesting. Looks like you could remove a part of the back to access the inside. Good compromise.
Yeah and release an ancient butt plug demon whose spirit was locked away in the object and forever imprisoned in the statue?
Man. He really jammed that thing way up in there before he died didn’t he.
There’s something about storing priceless artifacts that can never be seen unless you destroy the priceless artifact that contains them strikes me as the most Buddhist thing ever.
Seriously? Someone just made this a decade ago and put on display. Maybe style the real one.
Possibly, this is where all the Buddhist hide their stuff that they had to “give up”
I sense a “but”
It’s probably no different than someone would do today, just putting random crap in a sculpture to give it the proper shape.
Butt plug
Source??
Why would they hide the ancient *butt plug* in the head of the statue instead of the….*butt?*
..and inside there is a scroll that reads:
_When we destroy beauty for the sake of profit, we forget that nothing we take can truly be owned. Greed promises gain, but it plants suffering—for the land, for others, and eventually for ourselves. To protect what is beautiful is to practice compassion; to restrain desire is to walk the path of wisdom_
It has to have a way to open it . I mean they made it . Stuffed it with stuff and closed something on it to finish it