as a follow on from : http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8005.0 (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8005.0)
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I like update number 2. There is something about that tree behind the statue. It just looks right.
This has great potential, Inky. Ideally, you should have Siddhartha sitting under a bohdi or pipal tree, as that is where he was sitting when he achieved enlightenment (Bohdi). All you have to do is find some willing chap with Xfrog to make you one, then you can plonk him under it; result one enlightened buddha.
Another possible setting occurs to me: remember those nasty Taliban bods blowing up all those buddha statues sculpted into cliffs. Well, it might be nice to reinstate the poor fellow in the niche of a cliff, as a gesture of defiance to those rag-headed hooligans.
John
thanks Guys, working on the next incarnation!
ps John, I had a vision of a Rab C Nesbit style rant there, cheers brightened my day!