Forest-dwelling monks have kept an obscure Buddhist tradition alive in the Columbia River Gorge with the help of the White Salmon, Washington, community. A small house and a few huts sit at the end of ...

Nestled in the woods near White Salmon is a small group of Theravada Buddhist monks following the Thai Forest tradition. The Pacific Hermitage has been in White Salmon for nearly a decade and depends ...

Deep in a Thai forest a young man sprints through the undergrowth, blowpipe in hand, before pumping a poisoned dart at a monkey. The group closes in, shouting out to each other, and the animal falls ...