Peace in retreat: how Lorries are ruining buddhists' tranquill haven
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settlement's Prayer Room and scattering debris over the adjacent (and in the circumstances ironically titled) Peace Garden. Thankfully, the driver survived and no one else was seriously injured, but the paper claims the episode has had a Rambo-style effect the monks have gone "militant".
"I've been writing to all sorts of people, including councillors, MPs and MSPs and the logging companies, trying to highlight this problem," was the considerably un-militant quote provided as an example from Samye Ung resident Marian Dreyfus.
Still, it's a laudable approach, though one that ultimately may prove fruitless. The pen is mightier than the sword, but in the ceaseless harvesting of Scotland's timber the chainsaw easily trumps both. It has the added advantage of being louder too, drowning out any uncomfortable protests, or prayers, that might float the local council's way.