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Hushed devotion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/08/2025
» Re: "Former Aids hospice abbot arrested for alleged temple fund fraud, money-laundering", (BP, Aug 26).
Return to 1997
Oped, Postbag, Published on 27/09/2023
» Re: "Govt wants fuss-free charter rewrite", (BP, Sept 23).
Too much Pali
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/05/2022
» Re: "Sex, money and monkhood don't mix", (Opinion, May 12). Your columnist Sanitsuda Ekachai writes, " A monk's education focuses only on rote-learning of the ancient Pali texts, forsaking spiritual training and the goal of monkhood -- spiritual liberation." This is a point I have been stressing throughout the 18 years that I have been a monk in Thailand.
Unholy questions
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/04/2022
» Re: "'Embezzler' had plans for supercar" (BP, April 7, 2022).
Oversight due
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2022
» Re: "'Temple swindler' assets to be investigated", (BP, April 6).
Sincerity forsaken
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2021
» Re: "Thamanat saga a blight", (Editorial, May 7).
Hazy booze ideas
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/06/2020
» The approach to alcohol in Thailand needs some serious review and new structure. Thailand has great food and great food goes with nice wine and that is in the Mediterranean style and fits with tourism and lifestyle.
Road to where?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/05/2020
» Re: "Cut govt some slack", (PostBag, April 29).
Irrational sentence
News, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2020
» "A former abbot of Wat Sa Ket (Golden Mount) was sentenced to a suspended jail term of 36 months and fined 27,000 baht for embezzlement of 69.7 million baht in temple funds", read your online report concerning the politely termed "malfeasance" of a senior monk and a bunch of criminals from the National Office of Buddhism.