Thai Buddhism
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Monks visit car showroom. The staff gain merit from the Buddhist monks. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their opening, the car showroom held a tamboon today. Nine monks arrived at 10 o’clock, chauffeured in the company’s most luxurious cars. The monks sat on the ornate chairs that the showroom staff had brought from the temple. Normally,…
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And why the founding abbot’s name is not being mentioned, even though today is his 80th birthday.Today marks Earth Day in the Buddhist calendar—a time for reflection, renewal, and reverence. At Wat Phra Dhammakaya and other temples in Thailand, the celebrations are vast and well-orchestrated: mass meditation, offerings from tens of thousands of followers, and…
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This short piece examines the relevance of the orange buckets given to monks. Thai monks and the Relevance of Orange Buckets You will always find rows of orange buckets, filled with gifts, in the supermarkets. Rice, soap, toothpaste, soft drinks, and some snacks. People buy them to give to the monks in the sang katan ceremony.…