With the guidance of two forest monks - Ven.

The life of the monk or nun in a community is much more complex than the life of the forest monk.

He passed away on July 2, 1999 after spending 27 years as a forest monk at Mitirigala.

Ariyadhamma Mahathera leads about 1500 forest monks in 193 branch monasteries.

The so-called forest monks usually wear ochre robes and city monks saffron, though this is not an official rule.

Meticulous detailing had been done in the leaf huts used by the forest monks of the 5th century.

They also asked him to make his residence permanent, as a favor to them, and to no longer wander in the manner of a forest monk.

Meditation is done by forest monks for the most part, while village monks teach and serve their lay communities.

Venerable Kassapa, 41, is a forest monk in Sri Lanka.

And before noon, plans were under way to return the plastic bag - though not the cloth bag - to its owner, a forest monk.