giving of alms, famine prevention, or cures for pestilence. It is a highly specialised area that sublimates all these issues by abjuring them. Swami Sivananda says that if a true monk or a ...

Since childhood, 90-year-old Phang Sangchansavang has given alms to her local monks In 2021, a new high-speed rail line connecting China and Laos opened, sparking a sharp rise in tourists to Luang ...