Guards ring bells, burst crackers or flash torch lights to scare off
the invading primates, but Buddhism won’t allow the use of violence to
deter the monkeys….
…The tree already arguably has the tightest security in Sri Lanka. It is surrounded by a gold-plated fence and protected night and day, spiritually and physically, by an army of soldiers and police as well as monks.
AFP: Monks battle monkeys to save Buddhism’s holiest tree
And speaking of bodhi seeds and so forth, as we were below…
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