CULTURE

There's so much wisdom that Buddhism can teach us: Try to live a life of peace and prosperity. Don't put too much value in material objects. Never dig straight down because there's lava down there you dolt. Wait, that might be one of ours. Good advice though!
充满智慧的佛教可以教会我们很多东西：尝试过上国泰民安的生活。不去追逐过量的物质财富。不要傻乎乎地垂直着向下挖掘，因为那里可能有岩浆。慢着，那条可能是我们写的。不过，确实是个好建议！

Still, you don't need to possess eternal wisdom to see that Life of a Buddhist by Team Vaeron is a beauty of a build. Buddhists preach a life without envy (probably) but it's hard not to be a little green when you learn this was made in just 24 hours, for Buildcon 2017.
不过，你并不需要拥有永恒的智慧，就可以看出由Vaeron团队所建造的一个佛教徒的生活（Life of a Buddhist）是多么妙的一个建筑项目。佛教徒宣扬着摆脱嫉妒的生活（大概），但假如你得知这个建筑项目在2017年的Buildcon上仅用时24小时便完成了的话，又难免会产生些许嫉妒。

"We had the idea of doing a 24 hour build battle against the amazing Shapescape team for quite some time," explains Team Vaeron founder, Rafessor. "So we got in contact with Vanessa [Buildcon founder] and asked if they would like to host the contest. They agreed on organizing it as an event at the Buildcon and that’s how it all came together." Look out for an interview with Shapescape on Minecraft.net later this week!
“我们团队在很早之前就有一个关于和Shapescape这支惊人的建筑团队进行一场24小时建筑对决的想法，”Vaeron团建的创始人Rafessor解释道。“所以我们联系了[Buildcon创始人]Vanessa，询问他们是否愿意主持这场对决。他们欣然接受了，并组织了一场名叫“Buildcon”的活动。”请密切关注本周后在Minecraft.Net上发布的对 Shapescape的采访！

Team Vaeron started in 2013, when Rafessor founded the building team "for a server network I was owning with two other people. We decided to continue as a building team when that server went offline, started getting active on social media and are now working with a big group of servers and YouTubers."
Vaeron团队创立于2013年，那时Rafessor就已经创建了一个建筑团队“当时我和另外2个人共同拥有一个网络服务器。我们决定在服务器关停后继续作为一个建筑团队，并开始在社交网络上开展活动，而现如今，我们与一大群服务器和油管主有着合作。”

Clearly a talented bunch, what makes Minecraft their building tool of choice? "Well for me," explains Team Vaeron member, Guavacado "it is one way I can express my creativity and infinite imagination with the building aspect of the game, which probably makes that my favourite part about it."
很明显这是一群才华横溢的人，那他们为什么会将Minecraft当作他们创作的工具呢？“对我来说，”Vaeron团队的成员Guavacado解释道，“这是我通过游戏的建筑方面表现我的创造性和无限想象力的一种途径，这可能也是我最喜欢的部分之一。”

"In my eye Minecraft isn't the kind of game you can find everywhere," says xZinjoo, another Team Vaeron member. "[It's] something that acts as a completely new way of expressing creativity and creating art in a really simple way. Minecraft gives me a way of expressing artistic thoughts in a simple way, and that's what makes me use it."
“在我看来，Minecraft并不像市面上很常见的那些游戏，”Vaeron团队的另一位成员xZinjoo说。“[它]是一种途径，一种表达个人创造力的途径，一种创作艺术作品的途径。正是Minecraft让我能用最简单的方式去表达我的创造力，让我得以创作出艺术作品，这就是我玩这个游戏的理由。”

你能在24小时内造出这样的建筑吗？我们可能做不到。毕竟我们一天至少睡22个小时。由Dfault提供渲染。

考虑到如此短的时间限制，如此细节处理属实让人印象深刻。由Lastbanan提供渲染。

太神了！他们看上去是如此的和蔼平静, 即便建筑师根本没刻画他们的面部。由Dfault提供渲染。

So why a Buddhist build? "The theme given for the build battle was “Life”, and we had the idea of depicting a lifestyle to fulfil the theme," explains Lastbanan, another member of Team Vaeron. "It had to be something that everyone is able to help on and we had to consider that we only had 24 hours for building what we planned. Later the same day I reminded myself that I recently had a project for school about life and religion."
那么，为什么要选择建造佛教建筑呢？“此次建筑对决给出的主题是‘生活’，我们要构思如何描绘出符合主题的生活方式，”Vaeron团队的另一位成员Lastbanan解释道。“我们需要构思一个每个人都清楚且都能帮上忙的建筑项目，我们还必须考虑到我们仅有的24小时用于实施建筑计划。当天晚些时候，我想起来我最近为学校做过一个关于生活与宗教的项目。”

"My teacher had a very interesting presentation about the central thoughts of Buddhism and I started researching about the religion and looked at Buddhist temples for references to complete the concept. We also have a Buddhist member in the team, and he helped with the building process and gave some ideas, but we didn’t originally came up with the concept because of him."
“我的老师举行了一个非常有趣的讲座，在讲座上介绍了佛教的核心思想，于是我开始研究起这个宗教，并将一座佛教寺庙作为参考，完善概念。我们的团队中也有一名佛教徒，他在建筑过程中提供了一些帮助和想法，但我们最初提出这个概念的原因不在于他。”

我们真希望我们能够炫酷地展现出如此大胆的全部由金色构成的外观。由Lastbanan提供渲染。

In an average 24 hours in the Mojang offices, we manage to raid the fridge, send about three emails (four on a good day), and then sneakily play Minecraft for the rest of the day until the boss lets us go home. Basically, we achieve nothing . But Team Vaeron took only a single day to deliver their build. "Fixing our sleep schedules after everything went down also was quite a challenge for some of us, hehe," admits Rafessor.
在Mojang办公室的平均24小时里，我们想方设法突袭了冰箱，发送了大概3封电子邮件（如果心情好可能会是4封），然后偷偷玩Minecraft摸鱼，直到老板宣布下班。基本上，我们啥也没做。但反观Vaeron团队，仅用一天时间就完成了他们的建筑项目。“一切都结束后，调整自己的生物钟反而成为了我们一些成员的一大挑战，呵呵，”Rafessor承认道。

"I’m pretty proud of the overall atmosphere the build creates and how everything fits together that well. It doesn’t happen too often that everything looks like it’s made by the same person when a large group of people actually worked on it, and it just worked out perfectly on this project."
“看到建筑物所营造出的环境氛围，以及这一切都完美地融合到了一起，我就感到非常地自豪。这一张地图看上去就像是同一个完成的那样，这对于一个庞大的团队来说并不常见，这表明，我们在建造这个项目时配合得非常完美。”

Heck, we're so inspired by this work ethic, we're gonna try and send five emails today. Right after our nineteenth trip to the fridge. Get inspired yourself by enjoying more Team Vaeron builds here, following them on Twitter and their YouTube channel here!
天呐，这样的工作态度无疑给我们起到了模范作用，那今天我们就要试着发送5封电子邮件。不过得在这第19次突袭冰箱大行动之后。来这里欣赏更多的Vaeron团队建筑作品，从中获取灵感吧，关注他们的推特，你还可以在这里关注他们的油管频道！

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【Aikiniさん 译自官网 2017 年 04 月 26 日发布的 Zen of the Build；原作者 Tom Stone】
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