Buddhist celebration summer 2008. Fredrika, Sweden.
This is a short video of buddhist celebration and ceremony at Fredrika, Sweden. This is where the biggest temple in Europe will be built.Situated in a remote area located in the rolling hills of Sweden's southern Lapland and clad in soft snow in the winters, you will find the under-construction Buddhist temple of Fredrika.
Right now one of Sweden's smallest towns is making room for the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe with space for almost as many worshippers as there are villagers.
In this series of over 20 fine photographs we follow the ceremony greeting the statue of Luang Phor Thuad into the nordic community of Fredrika. Luang Phor Thuad is the most revered monk in the history of Thai Buddhism and is comparable to Saint George when it comes to Christian standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_intelligence
Elephants are thought to be highly altruistic animals that will even aid other species, including humans, in distress. In India, an elephant was helping locals lift logs by following a truck and placing the logs in pre-dug holes upon instruction from the mahout (elephant trainer). At a certain hole, the elephant refused to lower the log. The mahout came to investigate the hold up and noticed a dog sleeping in the hole. The elephant only lowered the log when the dog was gone.^[29]
Cynthia Moss has often seen elephants going out of their way to avoid hurting or killing a human, even when it was difficult for them (such as having to walk backwards to avoid a person).
Joyce Poole documented an encounter told to her by Colin Francombe on Kuki Gallman's Laikipia Ranch. A ranch herder was out on his own with camels when he came across a family of elephants. The matriarch charged at him and knocked him over with her trunk, breaking one of his legs. In the evening, when he didn't return, a search party was sent in a truck to find him. When the party discovered him, he was being guarded by an elephant. The animal charged the truck, so they shot over her and scared her away. The herdsman later told them that when he couldn't stand up, the elephant used her trunk to lift him under the shade of a tree. She guarded him for the day and would gently touch him with her trunk.^[19]Elephants are the only other species on Earth other than Homo sapiens sapiens and Neanderthals^[31] known to have any recognizable ritual around death. They show a keen interest in the bones of their own kind (even unrelated elephants that have died long ago). They are often seen gently investigating the bones with their trunks and feet, and remaining very quiet. Sometimes elephants that are completely unrelated to the deceased will still visit their graves.^[9]