In the dark predawn, Phra Acharn sat in the lotus position, deep in prayer. A wrist-thick candle lit the faces of the venerable abbot and the temple’s massive, golden Buddha equally, like flickering reflections of the same face – apt symbolism for an aging abbot.
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