Vihara Temple
i too a devil inspecting
evil doers' retributions
vihara temple
i join the devils to inspect
punishments of evil doers
Vihara Temple
a hell quiet
as nirvana
Vihara Temple
the devil's eyes hotter
than flames
Vihara Temple
telling the child to behave
or else...
In Sri Lanka's Wewurukannala Vihara Temple, the hellish fate of sinners who stray from the Buddhist way is vividly displayed by cartoonish, life-sized statues that show people getting dunked in a boiling cauldron, disemboweled, and sawed in half—lengthwise, while the devil looks on with a cautionary wag of his finger
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