After years of war left Thais in Ayutthaya in bad places, some took to beheading images of the Buddha to sell on for money. Story goes that the authorities caught one person in the act and they placed the head on the ground where it was left for many years. Over this time a tree grew around the head, which is taken by many Buddhists as a symbol of the symbiotic relationship between Buddhists and nature. As the Buddha supports nature in His teachings, the tree supports the Buddha and now the local community too.
January 08, 2016 at 06:29PM
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