Ilmiö on syystäkin hämmästyttänyt turisteja, ja juutalaisjärjestöt kautta maailman ovat esittäneet vastalauseitaan. Thaimaalaiset itse syyttävät länsimaita huumorin puutteesta.
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http://yle.fi/uutiset/huippuyliopiston_ ... ta/6733296
Bangkok: He's known as Thailand's jet-setting fugitive monk, and his story has riveted the country with daily headlines of lavish excess, promiscuity and alleged crimes ranging from statutory rape to manslaughter.
The arrest warrant implicates him on three charges including statutory rape, embezzlement and online fraud to seek donations. He is also under investigation for money laundering, drug trafficking and manslaughter for a hit-and-run accident.
Authorities are struggling to figure out how he amassed so much money.
http://m.smh.com.au/world/wirapol-sukph ... 2q7z5.html
It is also against the rules to sell alcoholic beverages during the beginning of Buddhist Lent, which means bars and entertainment places will be closed on Monday and Tuesday nights.
Many activities are planned throughout the city, especially at our temples, and everyone is invited to take part.
http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/bu ... 9?ref=pmci
Scores of Tibetans have been arrested and disappeared for keeping portraits of the Dalai Lama in their phones or at homes, and singing songs or writing about the Tibetan spiritual leader who relinquished all his political authorities to the elected Tibetan leadership in 2011.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx ... s&id=33748
When my teenage daughter, who has never expressed an interest in religion, asked me to take her to a wian tian ceremony to observe Asarnha Bucha Day, I was ecstatic.
Reflections on religion, graft and teenagers
Former monk Mitsuo Gavesako, who was abbot of the renowned Sunandavanaram forest monastery in Kanchanaburi, left the monkhood to pursue an ordinary life which allows him to have a normal intimate relationship with a woman.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... or-a-woman
Somdej Phra Buddhacharn, acting Supreme Patriarch and abbot of Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan, died of a blood infection at Smitivej hospital on Saturday morning. He was 85.
The revered Buddhist monk, widely known as Somdej Kiew, was born on March 3, 1928 in Koh Samui district of Surat Thani province.
Somdej Kiew was appointed as acting Supreme Patriarch in 2004 after the Supreme Patriarch, His Holiness Somdet Phra Yanasamvara Suvaddhana Mahathera, became ill and has been admitted to Chulalongkorn hospital in 2002.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... dies-at-85
A Buddhist monk has been accused of stoking religious tensions leading to the persecution and even the deaths of members of the Muslim minority in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
Shin Wirathu leads the 969 campaign which aims to force people not to use Muslim businesses.
Many are blaming him and the nationalist organisation he helps, for inciting violence against Muslims in Sagaing in the north of the country.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher has travelled to the monastery where he teaches in Mandalay.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23874521
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