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Buddhist Temple Built Out of One Million Beer Bottles

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-ten-bull-liquors dept.

Buddhist monks have recycled over one million used bottles to build a temple in Khun Han, Thailand near the Cambodian border. The monks started collecting bottles in 1984 and gathered so many that they decided to use them as a building material. Wat Lan Kuad or 'the Temple of a Million Bottles', is a complex of around 20 buildings, comprising the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground which serve as monks quarters, all using bottles. The monks plan on expanding once they have more bottles. Abbot San Kataboonyo says, "The more bottles we get, the more buildings we make."

5 comments

  1. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This would have made an interesting picture. Too bad it's so small, you can't see any details. Why is this? Is bandwifth really so expensive you can only show 460 px Ã-- 288 px images here or something?

    1. Re:Meh by oldspewey · · Score: 1

      Just be at peace with the image size ... concentrate on your breathing ...

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  2. Click on the second link in TFS by denzacar · · Score: 1

    There are a bunch of photos there.

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  3. Do they get much hail in Thailand? by White+Flame · · Score: 0

    Because that would really suck.

  4. ThinkGeek by Thinboy00 · · Score: 1

    #include <beer.h>

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