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Buddha's lost children revisited - Return to The Golden Horse Temple
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Buddha's lost children revisited - Return to The Golden Horse Temple

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Khru Baa Nua Chai, known to wider audiences from the 2006 film "Buddha's Lost Children," runs a Buddhist temple in the mountains near Chiangrai, in Thailand's Golden Triangle, where he trains young novices and works against the drug abuse that has spread through nearby villages. This return visit follows him teaching Dhamma at the temple, officially named Tham Pa Acha Thong, and demonstrating "prab thaad," the physical exercise method he uses as part of his approach to healing and discipline. The film revisits the boys who became monks under his guidance, watching how the temple functions as both a refuge from addiction and a place of ordinary training and routine. It keeps its focus narrow and observational, staying with Khru Baa Nua Chai's own teaching rather than building out interviews or wider context on the region's drug trade. What carries the film is the contrast between the isolated, poor villages the novices come from and the discipline of the temple that has replaced that life for them.