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EXCLUSIVE ONLINE REPORT Where Pilgrims and Conservationists Meet
In May of 2010, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nekorpa and Bhutanese Buddhist leaders met at Taktsang Monastery to study the confluence of traditional Buddhist pilgrimage and conservation. This effort is but one in a growing movement which understands that environmental conservation efforts are highly successful when initiated and carried out in concert with faith-based communities. In Taktsang specifically, current challenges facing the Buddhist yogis include not only the increasing amounts of garbage and plastic waste discarded by tourists, but also noise pollution. More significant, though, than the garbage, disruptive yelling, and tourists banging on the doors of meditators’ huts in search of a toilet, is the increasing amount of the “three poisons” [desire, anger, ignorance] that are carried into Taktsang.
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