Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles

[emad]

A temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof.
18 Feb 2009

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or 'the Temple of a Million Bottles', is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.

The Buddhist monks began collecting bottles in 1984 and they collected so many that they decided to use them as a building material.

They encouraged the local authorities to send them more and they have now created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, 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.

The bottles do not lose their colour, provide good lighting and are easy to clean, the men say.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4687433/Buddhist-temple-built-out-of-one-million-beer-bottles.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. That is so cool!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Wish I could see the temple close-up

[CrispyQ]

3. More shots & some close ups here, GPV!

It is soooooooo cool!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/temple-built-from-beer-bottles.php

My sister sent me this photo a couple of years ago at Christmas. I swear, someday I'm going to do this! I think it's stunning!

[moggie]

5. Clearly, your sister doesn't have a cat n/t

[CrispyQ]

6. It wasn't her tree. OMG, with her dogs???

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. coolness.

thanks for posting this.

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. Well, Buddhism is founded on the idea of recycling

Beer bottles, souls, not much difference. :toast:

[sinkingfeeling]

8. That is really neat. The close-up shots make the bottles appear flat-sided. Do you think the monks

did something or is that the way Chang beer is bottled?

[ZombieHorde]

9. When frat boys convert to Buddhism...

[SidneyCarton]

11. Oh, man that place will be the mother of all pilgrimage sites for frat-boys who convert.

:rofl:

[SidneyCarton]

10. I wonder how the place sounds when the wind blows?