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# tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/tiengiungtongs-rabbit-hole-is-lined-with-bodhisattvas/
- Published: 2026-08-22T01:51:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-22T01:51:55.000Z
- Description: Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: tiengiungtong, point-and-click, Buddhism, Horror, instagram, Cosmology of Kyoto, Eastern Mind, Dream

"Welcome to the rabbit hole" is the entire caption on [the reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DX1tnB3xOnS/?ref=killscreen.com) that the artist behind [tiengiungtong](https://www.instagram.com/tiengiungtong/?ref=killscreen.com) (天弓堂) posted in May: a first-person descent, one held click at a time, through tunnels lined with Buddhist statuary. The account has fewer than 7,000 followers. The reel has 125,000 likes and a comment section running on a single question—is this a game I can play? (cf. [Miles Buckle](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/miles-buckle/))

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"Welcome to the rabbit hole"—the full reel. Video: [tiengiungtong](https://www.instagram.com/p/DX1tnB3xOnS/?ref=killscreen.com)

It is not, yet. There is no title, no store page, no engine named. What the comments supply instead is a lineage, and it is a precise one: *Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou* and *Cosmology of Kyoto*, the 1990s Japanese CD-ROM explorations where clicking forward was itself the ritual, plus newer dream-logic work like *ENA: Dream BBQ*. The forward-click grammar is exactly right—this moves like *Cosmology of Kyoto* remembered through a dream.

The pattern in the responses is the more interesting thing: almost nobody reads it as horror. The recurring move in the thread is identification rather than fright—reading the central figure as a bodhisattva and deciding, in real time, that the space is a refuge. Dread resolving into safety is a rare register for liminal-space content, and it is one with a history here: we asked back in 2013 whether [*MirrorMoon EP* was the first Buddhist videogame](https://www.killscreen.com/mirrormoon-ep-first-buddhist-space-exploration-sim/), and in 2016 climbed a [mystical mountain built on Tibetan Buddhism](https://www.killscreen.com/climb-mystical-mountain-game-based-tibetan-buddhism/). Whoever runs 天弓堂—the account publishes no name, just "I love dogs"—is working that same seam, and 125,000 people just asked them to keep going.