Billion Monk-eys

I have been travelling around but now I am back. I am going to try and do what Brian Micklethwait does and post something here every day. The idea is to make my blog more blog-like.

Since I am stealing one of Brian’s ideas I might as well steal some more. Here is a quota photo.

Monk with camera

Monk with camera

It’s a monk billion monkey, seen outside the Temple of the Reclining Buddha in Bangkok. I suppose I think of monks as eschewing material posessions so I was surprised to see this. But then again, these Buddhist temple mottos suggest that Buddhism is okay with acquiring wealth (click to make it bigger):

mottos

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