{"id":3862,"date":"2010-02-15T20:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2010-02-15T20:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:32:45","slug":"buddhists-and-the-bicycle-use-of-the-great-green-machine-could-join-the-pancha-sila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/buddhists-and-the-bicycle-use-of-the-great-green-machine-could-join-the-pancha-sila\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists and the bicycle: use of the Great Green Machine could join the Pancha Sila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a.jpg\" alt=\"Buddhist urban design and bicycle planning\" title=\"Buddhist urban design and bicycle planning\" width=\"775\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_6064a-624x402.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It must be asserted that the Pancha Sila (Five Precepts) do not necessarily make a person a Buddhist, but to be a real Buddhist, one has to observe the five precepts&#8221;. Furthermore, to be a good Buddhist one should ride a bicycle instead of driving a car. Is there such a thing as a Buddhist approach to urban design? I wish there were: urban design based on bare scientific rationalism has produced, and is producing, ugly and unsustainable cities throughout Asia. The above photograph of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/library_online_ebooks\/architecture_city_as_landscape\/cycleways_bikeways\">Great Green Machine<\/a> was taken beside the canal in Kenzo Tange&#8217;s preposterously bombastic baroque design for the Buddha&#8217;s birthplace: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/lumbini_garden_nepal\">Lumbini<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It must be asserted that the Pancha Sila (Five Precepts) do not necessarily make a person a Buddhist, but to be a real Buddhist, one has to observe the five precepts&#8221;. Furthermore, to be a good Buddhist one should ride a bicycle instead of driving a car. Is there such a thing as a Buddhist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}