Forest Path - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

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putting forth a lot of effort in practice. Although few people make it
into Tao Dam, the ones who do come from across Thailand and
range from businessmen to ecologists to military historians.
Another interesting development in Thailand is that a tradition of
ordaining trees has been instigated — tying a semblance of the
gaen-kanun coloured forest monks robe around the trunks of
trees — to protect the forest from logging. With a monk’s robe
tied around a tree even the most callous Thai logger will think twice
before killing the tree. To be sure, there are glaring exceptions to this
trend towards respect for the trees and the wildlife in and around
the forest monastery, but generally the presence of monks has a