News Forum - PM Prayut wants Thailand’s monks to clean their act up

[Thaiger]

Buddhist monks keep acting inappropriately, and Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has had enough. Yesterday, PM Prayut ordered the National Office of Buddhism to strengthen discipline among Thailand’s Buddhist monks, following a long string of cases of monks breaking the rules. The Sangha – the collective word for Thailand’s monastic community – has existed for thousands of years in Thailand. Ordained monks are expected to follow 227 rules outlined in the code of monastic discipline. However, monks clad in saffron robes often break the rules, even the serious ones such as no sex, no drugs, no stealing, no killing and […]

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[palooka]

Four years later, badly behaved monks ( Police/ Politicians/ Hiso etc )  still make headlines in Thailand every day.

[Giltee]

It’s a little unfair to spotlight the monks when the example they’ve lived with is corruption from political levels filtering down through government departments to police etc etc. The whole country needs to tidy up its act but here corruption is the norm so nothings going to change

[Prosaap]

Ooh so this is what they mean when the talk about thai culture 

[HolyCowCm]

Who is he kidding? Look in the mirror first. 

[Smiler]

Religion is mankind’s biggest corruption you see it the world over. 

[thaifarmer]

1 hour ago, Smiler said:

Religion is mankind’s biggest corruption you see it the world over. 

i would add indoctrination to that....

[RichardR]

I guess the Thai government will ban all need on corrupt monks.  And if nobody can read the stories then they do no longer exist.

 

Maybe in another 100 years Thailand realizes that the corruption and lack of consequence for braking rules is a bigger defamation then saying truthfully things.

 

[Rebel]

Surprised when many of the monks are former criminals who seeks cover dressing up like a munk. Clothing doesn't make you a munk. There a many examples in the Thai sociaty that proves it. Suthep, Ducati killer etc.