Popular throughout Asia are Buddhist Hell Parks. They are usually part of, or adjacent to a local Temple. Lurid, graphic and unsparing life-size sculptures depict the torments that wait for lay people that do not keep the precepts of the Buddhist faith.
Women are often portrayed as eager to lead men astray. Monastic religions typically emphasize the virtues of abstinence from sex and alcohol. The Hell Park sculptures have a highly contradictory message to convey. They must "split the difference" between frankly erotic and sensual depictions of women and the pain and suffering hidden as the future price of pleasures the unwary man enjoys in life.
