Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes 26 Jun 2009, 0009 hrs IST, Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN Print Email Discuss Share Save Comment Text: PATNA: Sight-seeing in Switzerland does not leave a vacationer horrified, but Patna's Prabhat Choudhary, his wife and daughter were shocked to Buddha's statue at a footwear store in Geneva. (TOI Photo) see a Lord Buddha statue garlanded with a pair of shoes at a footwear shop in Geneva. "We were strolling on shopping street when my 15-year-old daughter insisted that we got into 'Anne Fontaine', a designer footwear shop. There in the shop, we saw a 4-ft statue of Lord Buddha on the shelf displaying shoes and slippers, garlanded with a pair of shoes," Prabhat, a realtor, recalled. The family was shocked. Prabhat's daughter, was furious. Though her parents were a bit frightened, she persuaded them to let her shoot the sight with her videocam. The girl, a student of Patna's prestigious Notre Dame Academy, accomplished her mission without anyone - the shop staff or the crowd of customers - knowing about it. Back home, Prabhat has sent a letter to the ministry of external affairs, requesting it to take up the matter with Swiss authorities.
kalupandey · Jun 26, 2009 3:12 AM · 12,137 views
Is that really pair of shoes or what... not so clear what is garland there..looks like a twist of ropes.... nevertheless.. i remember a compassionate Buddha in the forms of avalokitesvara ..is a saviour of Lord Shiva being smashing by Virupaksa stormy weapons...In the Nepal Vaism beleive Virupaksa wants to kill and smashing Lord Shiva emblemst though ...without restraint.. until Lord Shiva seeking escape in terror and enormously in endangered thus Buddha come to save Lord Shiva under a conceal of his holy crown..All and all as a result of cause and effect of Lord Shiva enrage penance of the duped obeisance Virupaksa of being expiately cohabited with his own mother. ....The sin act of the diverse eye Virupaksa was penance by Lord Shiva to drink molten metals...... Even in this Nepali version potrayed of a holy buddha is celebrated as a compassionate ONE! ~ We Hindus has the respect and abode Buddha as well untandemly with this sin act by the shoe makers....neeee.... Last edited: 26-Jun-09 04:05 AM
natyavaruval · Jun 26, 2009 4:02 AM
a child dies somewhere. no worries. its alrite. someone sees buddha garlanded by what possibly cud be shoes! OMG INSULT WTF!!
dekchidriver · Jun 26, 2009 10:53 AM
Sabai lai budhha ko chinta chha hoina. Aba hami lai ke ko peer hami ta secular ho ni. Pahila po chinta thiyo Jaba hami hindu rastra thiyon.
Sajivan · Jun 26, 2009 12:12 PM
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