(Photo: Reuters)The Buddha once stopped a water war between relatives by asking a simple question: What is more valuable: water or human life? Thailand calls itself a Buddhist nation, taking pride in following Theravada Buddhism that preserves the Buddha's original teaching. Yet when the drums of war begin to beat, the Dharma falls silent. Through six months of fighting, however, the Thai clergy has remained utterly silent, as if nothing were happening. When his own relatives prepared to wage war over water from the Rohini River, he did not take sides.

Source: Bangkok Post December 27, 2025 00:19 UTC