The Zoo of the Giraffe Women: A Journey among the kayan of Northern Thailand Medicine Buddha copper statue these rudraksha beads have been

these rudraksha beads have been beaded with healing stones such as Carnelian

This endless knot earrings is made of silver and finely hand carved in Nepal

Mallet: 7"L

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)

Most of these type of villages and houses which once existed cannnot be seen anymore

The Zoo of the Giraffe Women: A Journey among the kayan of Northern Thailand Medicine Buddha copper statue these rudraksha beads have beenIn 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