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Presentation to the Monks

November 7th, 2009 admin 1 comment

What we do with many of the books we bring in is give them to the Buddhist monks. I’m not sure whether we make any merit in the Buddhist sense, but many temples in Myanmar have libraries that house our books and are used by their communities. The monks also distribute the books to these [...]

The Road from Yangon to Bogalay

November 6th, 2009 admin No comments

(Usually all the pictures here are mine, but videos and a few pictures taken by board member Hector Rivas were too good to leave out in this and a few following posts. Click on active words in the text to view the videos.)
We took a two day trip in a van to the city of [...]

Back from Myanmar

November 5th, 2009 admin No comments

Two weeks ago Sue and I got back from seven days in Myanmar, our fourth trip, and I finally have some time to write about it. The theme of this blog is coming to Thailand and the things that happen here, but one great thing to do when coming here is to take a side [...]