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Beckham Statue in Buddhist Shrine

by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) on Aug 18th 2007 at 7:17AM

Every culture since the dawn of man has embraced its share of idols.

Most have honored their reverent spirits by building statues, shrines, and temples to which the faithful can pilgrimage and pay their respects to the god of their choice, be it Buddha, Jesus, Zeus, or Beckham.

Beckham? David Beckham?!?!?

Yes indeed, a Buddhist temple in Bangkok has incorporated a golden sculpture of the famous soccer player into the otherwise Buddha filled interior. In case you're wondering, Buddha is the one on the left in the photo above.

Blogger Chris Mitchell has thoughtfully sent us this little hidden gem of Bangkok. But that's not all. In addition to capturing the great photo above, he has also provided detailed instructions on how to find the Beckham temple amongst the hundreds located in Bangkok.

This is great news for the Beckham faithful who will soon be flocking to Bangkok to prostrate, flagellate, and otherwise pay respects to the lord of soccer.

On a related note, rumors of a Posh Spice tribute at Pat Pong have not yet been confirmed.

(note: the website seems to be having some problems loading up all the photos. Hit refresh a couple of times and it should work)

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

KARIN Aug 24th 2007 8:22PM

Nothing puts credibility in your religion and temple like a golden statue of David Beckham. Why don't you put in a statue of Posh as well? But she'll probably bitch about HER statue being only golden, instead of platinum with diamonds all over it. Anything for tourist dollars, I guess.

Starpunk Aug 24th 2007 10:38PM

Holy shit! What next?

chops martin Aug 24th 2007 8:36PM

beckham is a over paid d---bag, playing the most boring sport next to badmitten..

chris Aug 24th 2007 8:57PM

We had a Tibetan monk who lived with us for some time. He made a shrine out of two old mahogany radio cabinets set one on top of the other. On the top he not only had traditional photos of his gurus, the Buddha and offerings, but also a large photo of a Harley Davidson motorcycle as well as a wine glass in which he had placed a plastic toy knight on a horse. Thus I am not sure that the story represents anything that unusual in the Buddhist world. I am sure there was a good reason why he put them there... And, by the way, our monk was very devout and a good person!

Ultra Cookie Aug 24th 2007 9:31PM

WOW, THAT'S SO COOL!! IT'S SO UNBELIEVABLE, LOL! WOW! DOES BECKHAM KNOW ABOUT THIS? NICE! SO CLEVER, HAHAHA. It doesn't really look like Beckham though! They should make one for Ronaldiho, pele and Maradona too!

Rob Aug 25th 2007 12:54PM

Chops, you're an idiot......but I'm sure many people have already told you that.

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