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Clergy must drop its dependence on state
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/02/2016
» The Sangha Council and its supporters should realise one thing in their campaign to pressure the government to endorse the supreme patriarch of their choice: They can't have the cake and eat it too.
Supreme Patriarch row won't help clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/01/2016
» Amid heated disputes over who will become the new supreme patriarch, one thing is certain: whoever that may be, there is no way he can tackle the ills plaguing monastic society.
Nip unholy hate speech in the bud
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/11/2015
» For a Buddhist monk killed in the deep South, a mosque should be burned down in retaliation. This violent proposal from a Buddhist monk stirred a heated debate on social media last week. Is it merely a storm in a tea cup? The answer is no.
Nationalism is Thailand's true religion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2015
» For the past month, Thai society has been in agreement that it's only right to push the desperate Muslim Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people back out to sea and let fate take care of them.
Buddhism and freedom of speech
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/01/2015
» How to be truthful in a hostile environment? How to say things that need to be said to avoid coercion and violence from low tolerance of criticism? What should we respect more in an open society where different cultural norms often compete and clash — freedom of expression or cultural sensitivity?
Nuns show us what merit really means
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/10/2014
» Whenever the issue of female ordination pops up, we hear two standard lines from our clerical elders.
Brutality a sad fact of our daily life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/05/2014
» While the country is still debating whether martial law is actually just a coup, people across the country are subjected to daily brutality, whether from deeply ingrained militarism in officialdom or our own psyche.
Why can’t we as Buddhists live in peace?
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/05/2014
» Visakha Bucha Day came and went quietly yesterday in our so-called Buddhist country, where people now look ready to tear one another’s throats just for having different political views.
Earthquake is wake-up call to change
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/05/2014
» Roads torn asunder. Buildings fractured. Roofs caved in. Temples cracked. A Buddha statue broken, its head lying shattered on the ground. The top tier of a sacred temple tilting dangerously.
Stripping away our sense of self
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/02/2014
» What do you do when you feel that something you cherish so highly that it has become part of your identity has been vilified?