140409 Tuesday – Si Saket

I’ve heard about this temple, Wat Lan Khuat which literally means temple of a million bottles. Ironically, it was not built by any kind of bottles but beer bottles. What interest me is the eco-friendliness and the analogy that even an ordinary beer bottle can be use to build a holy place for the monks. It is a bizarre, yet entirely serious Buddhist temple complex. From what I’ve read, the monks started collecting bottles and decorate as their shelters in 1984, and more and more people got involved in collecting bottles for the initiative, until a sufficient number was collected to build the temple (more than a million of course).

That explains everyone or objects has a purpose in this world, even those which seems to be detrimental. There are always both sides in everything. Even the clock that stops gets it right twice a day…