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Stop the racist monks before it's too late
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/09/2017
» Will the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state stoke tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the region? Definitely.
Truth about temple cash isn't pretty
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/07/2013
» Did the notorious Nen Kham really have sexual affairs with at least eight women while he was a monk? Did he buy a private jet and a mansion in the US which he showed off on social media? Did he sleep with a minor and father her child? Was he involved in drugs and money laundering? Were he or his brother lying beside a woman in a picture?
Reflections on religion, graft and teenagers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/07/2013
» When my teenage daughter, who has never expressed an interest in religion, asked me to take her to a <i>wian tian</i> ceremony to observe Asarnha Bucha Day, I was ecstatic.
Monk Mitsuo represented the clergy at its best
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/06/2013
» As soon as the news broke that the well-known and widely respected Buddhist monk Phra Ajarn Mitsuo Gavesako had left the monkhood, my Facebook page began buzzing with comments, ranging from shock, sadness and empathy, to sheer ridicule at all the brouhaha.
Army must keep its pledge to end boot camp violence
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/04/2013
» How are new conscripts being taught military discipline? In not one but two YouTube videos that went viral last week, the public was outraged to see privates being repeatedly kicked and slapped in the face and trampled hard in the back and torso as punishment for disobedience.