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Luang Pu 'makes merit' at Pak Nam temple
Online Reporters, Published on 21/02/2015
» Luang Pu Buddha Isara led his followers to Pak Nam temple on Saturday to protest against the Supreme Sangha Council's decision not to defrock Phra Dhammachayo, the abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya.
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DSI to question Phra Dhammachayo next week
King-oua Laohong, Published on 06/03/2015
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) plans to question Phra Dhammachayo, the abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, next Tuesday in relation to the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative embezzlement case.
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Luang Pu urges Sangha council boycott
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/02/2015
» Activist monk Phra Buddha Issara is spearheading a campaign for Buddhists to boycott the Sangha Supreme Council after it refused to defrock the controversial Phra Dhammachayo.
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Probe of Sangha monks' wealth urged
Online Reporters, Published on 23/02/2015
» Activist abbot Phra Buddha Isara on Monday asked the National Reform Council (NRC) and the government to examine the assets of Supreme Sangha Councillors and Wat Phra Dhammakaya.
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The Sangha's shock ruling leaves it ripe for reform
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/02/2015
» The Sangha Supreme Council will not defrock controversial monk Phra Dhammachayo, or Phra Thepyarn Mahamunee, the abbot of Wat Dhammakaya, and that decision has landed it in a hot and sticky situation.
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Govt steers clear of Dhammachayo case
Published on 24/02/2015
» The government has made clear it would have no part in the controversy involving Wat Phra Dhammakaya's abbot Phra Dhammachayo and will limit its role only to dealing with the embezzlement of money donated to the temple.
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Misbehaving monks test patience of the faithful
Published on 25/02/2015
» Ms Chalita Chinwanno goes to temple with her parents at least twice a month to meditate and pray. The joss sticks, the chants, and other rituals bring her peace amidst the bustle of city life, the 30-year-old says.
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Patronage system breeds malaise in the monkhood
News, Phra Paisal Visalo, Published on 03/03/2015
» The problems surrounding the Dhammakaya temple and its abbot Dhammachayo are serious in themselves. But they also reflect larger and more acute malaises in the Thai Buddhist clergy.
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Prayut says temple probe will go ahead
News, Published on 25/02/2015
» The government will take action on the case of the 12-billion-baht Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative embezzlement scandal, but it will not interfere with the Sangha Supreme Council (SSC)'s authority regarding National Reform Council (NRC) proposals, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says.
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Temple financial audits are overdue
News, Published on 01/03/2015
» The controversy over a donation worth more than 900 million baht to Wat Dhammakaya by Supachai Srisupa-aksorn, the former Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative chairman, was only the tip of the iceberg. The bigger question that this scam raises is whether financial auditing by the clergy is essential to prevent another financial scandal in the temple. Although temples are now required to send annual reports on their finances and assets to the National Office of Buddhism (NOB), only a small number of them adhere to this obligation. Of those 37,075 temples, only 1,321 did so in 2011, according to research by Nada Chansom of the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida).
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