Theme Park outside Lhasa!

[biggyboy]

In my opinion, why not? I look at it as another form of venue for modern people or communities to visit holy places of Buddhist monasteries let alone experiencing the Tibetan culture.  Projected 15 million tourists to visit...that is huge number! How else can someone bring that kind of influx to visit and be blessed for Enlightenment?  Having this can bring in revenues to help in maintaining, sustaining the Buddhist sites and to create the required jobs for the many people there.  Moreover, having this theme park will definitely bring in many more people in the long run to visit Lhasa be it for spiritual or not.

Similar views on why the need to commercialise Buddhist sites for sustainability:  http://www.dorjeshugden.com/forum/index.php?topic=2245.0

[AnneQ]

To me the idea of a theme park in mystical, magical, spiritual and beautiful Lhasa just reeks of crass commercialism and poor taste. Isn't there enough theme parks in China, much less in the world, to cater to the idiosyncrasy of the fun loving tourists seeking mindless pleasures and delusions? Do we really want to attract such people to Lhasa? Of course one could argue that attracting these pleasure seeking tourists to such a spiritual place could have a positive effect on their samsaric mindstream, that visiting or even breathing in the sites would affect a spiritual imprint...so on. Seriously? I am not convinced. Travellers visiting specific places have specific reasons for making that long trip, eg. to see the Eiffle Tower in Paris, to visit the Himalayas in Nepal, to see the Taj Mahal in India, to walk the Camino in Santiago, to climb Mount Everest etc...People who take the trouble to come all the way to Lhasa want to visit the temples, the monasteries, & experience the cultural heritage of the beautiful Tibetans...not to visit a theme park! Leave the profiteering and commercialism in Disneyland, Legoland, WhiteWater World, Universal Studios, Kidzania and preserve the sanctity of Lhasa.

[brian]

I think this is a good idea to have a theme park built in beautiful Lhasa! It may seem very commercial but think of the benefit of of the visitors that will receive when they come to Lhasa. I am referring to spiritual imprints here.

Tourist brings in money and also prosperity into the area. Generally it will benefit the locals to at least make some money out of tourists and i feel there's no harm having a theme park there as it will improve the quality of life in Lhasa. More people will be exposed to Tibetan culture and as i have mentioned, it will only do good than harm.

[Jessie Fong]

Building a theme park in Lhasa is one way to attract the tourist dollars.  I do not see anything wrong in developing this.  It may be commercial but the droves of tourists will increase.  To cater to this expected influx, jobs will be created and thus the income level of the people will be improved.  Hopefully, this will bring about an improved level of quality in life.

It will also create more exposure of the Tibetan culture to the world out of Tibet/China. 

[ratanasutra]

Well.. Think about another side of coin, this might be the point to attract tourists to visit Tibet apart from the beautiful culture and mystical history..

I wish this will bring more tourist to visit Tibet and tibetan buddhist and culture get exposure to people from all over the world apart from the tibetan buddhist that spread by the high lama who leave their country in the past.