I watched a video news report from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly with Bill Abernathy. The video was about a Buddhist temple that has become a sanctuary for hosts of animals, including a good number of tigers. The monks at the temple are kind to all of the animals and believe that they all living together peacefully because the animals want it to be a peaceful place as well. They also believe that the tigers are reincarnated monks, so they feed them, comfort them and communicate with them as if they were human.
Bob and his reporters really know how to find sources that can helpfully explain things on camera. Having filmed video interviews, sources don’t always explain things as well as I could write them. But it’s true, especially when you are trying to show religious practices and what certain clothing, ceremonies, even demographics look like, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this video, you got to see the animals living together, the monks in all their traditional clothing and clips of the tigers interacting with the humans. They also showed a clip of a newborn tiger cub that characteristically sent me into a girly "awwww" moment. The only thing that I really didn't like was that they showed the reporter talking to the monks. I thought that the story didn't gain anything by leaving shots of him in there, and actually distracted me because he so obviously did not fit in.
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