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Scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple helps stage Myanmar event
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
Red shirt weapons were stashed for 'temple conflict', cops say
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/03/2017
» Police believe the huge cache of weapons retrieved on Saturday from a Pathum Thani house linked to hardcore red-shirt leader Wuthipong Kochathamakun, alias Kotee, were intended to be used against authorities who had laid siege to Wat Phra Dhammakaya.
Clashes in the clergy over Somdej Chuang nomination
Spectrum, Published on 25/12/2016
» Somdej Phra Maha Ratchamangalacharn was once considered the most likely candidate to take the vacant supreme patriarch position. Widely known as "Somdej Chuang", he assumed the "Somdej" title, the second ranking to supreme patriarch, longer than any other monks before him. Belonging to the Mahaniyaka sect, he is the presiding abbot of Wat Pak Nam Phasi Charoen, or Wat Paknam.
Thai Buddhist temple to repay $20 mn in donation scandal
AFP, Published on 17/03/2015
» BANGKOK - A Buddhist temple at the heart of a bitter corruption scandal in Thailand Monday agreed to return donations worth around $20 million in a case that has prompted calls for greater scrutiny over religious institutions in the kingdom.
Ohec labels 12 universities bogus
Published on 26/07/2013
» The Office of the Higher Education Commission (Ohec) says it has so far found at least 12 bogus universities operating in Thailand.