Shaolin Temple opens online store - Chinese not pleased
The OG (that’s ‘Original Gangsta’ for those not acquainted with urban patois) Shaolin Temple in China has launched an online outlet where fans can drop their hard-earned loot on a wide array of Shaolin goodies. The site, located at www.taobao.com, doesn’t look very Shaolin (let’s just say austerity is not the site’s prime design imperative) so I can see why some Chinese are a little peeved.
“Shaolin temple is getting less and less likeable,” one Internet user wrote in an essay posted on news site ifeng.com on Wednesday. “There’s a giant laughing buddha in Shaolin temple. If it saw what the temple is doing these days, I’m not so sure it would still be laughing.”
I have to say it seems a little on the chintzy side to me, too. Why don’t they go into something respectable, like gold farming?
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