Wildmind Meditation News
Sep 06, 2011
Forest monks portrayed in photo exhibition
Venerable Ajahn Cagino, 43, lives in a cave with two snakes and eight bats. The cave is 2km from the nearest village in Mae Hong Son in northern Thailand. Nestled in a deep valley hemmed in by high mountain ranges that border Myanmar, Mae Hong Son is isolated from the outside world and is covered with mist throughout the year.
“I’ve had enough of wandering,” says the Malaysian monk of Thai Forest Tradition, which is a branch of Theravada Buddhism.
For 12 years, Cagino had been walking through the remotest jungles of Thailand, before settling…
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See also a slideshow of the exhibition below.
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