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How one Thai monk saves animals from the slaughterhouse with Buddhism

The Bai Si Sukwan is just a whimsical highlight to Phra Kru Ba’s initiative to save animals, in which his worshippers buy out cows and buffaloes that are meant to be slaughtered and donate them to him on the ceremony day.

Buddhists believe that their lives can be elongated by the great karma that comes with saving large animals who are on the brink of death.

In the past five years, the temple has helped over two hundred buffalos and cows, according to Baworn Soonklang, 26, a volunteer at the temple.

The animals are then given to residents of the Golden Triangle to use in farming, offering an alternative aside from opium trafficking. The career support goes together with the teaching of Buddhism, showing people a way out from the drug trade.

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