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is now well known as a Buddhist teacher in the West and as the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)

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The Zoo of the Giraffe Women: A Journey among the kayan of Northern Thailand Medicine Buddha copper statue Most of these type ofIn a village in the far north of Thailand, under the stunning light of a tropical sun, surreal women impeccably wearing their ethnic attire, smiling and motionless, offer themselves to the cameras of voracious tourists. Adorned with gorgeous necklaces of shining brass coils, they are the famous "giraffe women", the epithet commonly used to define members of the Kayan tribe originally from eastern Burma. The vivid contrast between the myths narrating