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Ban Kanchanapisek's healing lessons
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/09/2024
» How do you heal hardcore young criminals and turn them into active citizens? Ask Thicha Nanakorn -- she has the answer.
Monks caught in poaching scandal
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2024
» Sex and money scandals among rogue monks are old news, barely raising an eyebrow any more. What's grabbing headlines now? Monks involved in wildlife poaching.
Temple graft shows need for reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/04/2022
» The country's latest temple corruption scandal occurred at a first-class royal monastery; the centre of a sect founded by reformist monarch King Mongkut to clean up the clergy. What an irony!
Billy's death should not be in vain
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/09/2019
» Last week, the mystery was over.
Corn subsidies perpetuate old problems
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/08/2018
» The government's decision to pay rice farmers to shift to corn farming raises more questions than it answers.
Mixing monks with money corrupts clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/06/2018
» Fear and fury is gripping the clergy. Following the arrest and defrocking of high-profile monks for temple corruption, temples nationwide are fearful of financial inspections while monks are up in arms against the idea of prohibiting them from receiving money from the laity.
The secret of Thailand's biggest female clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/11/2017
» The clergy prohibits female ordination. That does not stop the Nirotharam Monastery in Chiang Mai from being the country's biggest community of female monks and novices -- and with strong support from local monks and residents too.
Racism blinds monks to Rohingya plight
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/10/2017
» An abbot at a Buddhist temple in Bangladesh has a very simple reason for helping the Rohingya Muslims who fled for dear life from the atrocities they faced in Myanmar.
Sangha Council's rigid control must ease
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/01/2017
» The newly amended Sangha Act may effectively put an end to the supreme patriarch nomination row, but it cannot restore public faith in the corruption-ridden clergy. Nor can it stop the popularity of the controversial Dhammakaya temple.
Female monks barred from paying respects
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/01/2017
» If you think any Thai can pay respects to the late revered monarch, you will be in for an unpleasant surprise.