Thai Buddhist Temple: Authorities in the area claim that all the monks at a minor Buddhist temple in their country's north have been expelled after it was revealed that they had been using methamphetamine.
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Approximately 240 kilometers north of Bangkok, in the province of Phetchabun, the sheriff and the village headman of the Bung Sam Phan subdistrict snooped around schools, industries, and temples in search of drug users and traffickers so that they might be sent for treatment.
There is a high level of respect for monks in Thai society; as a result, seats on the metro in Bangkok are set aside just for those who are pregnant or old. Monks are highly respected members of society, particularly in the more rural regions outside of Bangkok. They often take on the roles of counselors and role models within the local community.
Therefore, it came as quite a shock to Sungyut when he and the sheriff paid a visit to the little temple on Friday and discovered that all four of the monks there had tested positive for the usage of methamphetamine. He said two monks at a different local temple had positive test results.
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However, the Thai Buddhist Temple was evident from the monks' personalities and the way they behaved when they were under the influence of drugs, as Sungyut pointed out. Some local people had provided him with information, asking him to investigate the local temples.
Even the abbot, who had been a monk for ten years and functioned as the monastery's leader, was discovered to be taking illegal substances. Sungyut shared his thoughts by stating, "When I examined the abbot's refuge, I was surprised since it was a mess." According to him, the monks admitted to taking narcotics once the drug test results returned positive. A few came clean and acknowledged being addicted for a very long time.
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The controversy in Phetchabun province coincides with a nationwide crackdown on narcotics in response to an October shooting at a daycare center that left 38 people dead, the vast majority of whom were children. The suspect was rumored to be a former police officer who was let go for drug-related reasons.
Administrator Niti Rungjaruenkij claims that all local addicts, including former monks, were admitted to a rehabilitation center on Wednesday. For the monks to enter rehabilitation, Sungyut said they had to relinquish their monastic duties first, calling it "inappropriate" to do so otherwise. When they are no longer dependent on drugs, he said, they can return to their monastic lifestyle if they so choose.
Sungyut said he was initially concerned that the revelations might cause some people's faith to be shaken because of how shocking they were to the community. Initially, he said, the villagers found the monks' wrongdoing to be "very difficult for them," but they have thanked him for his efforts.
After all, he had called them "misbehaving monks," suggesting they leave the order if they could not follow monastic norms.
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Approximately 240 kilometers north of Bangkok, in the province of Phetchabun, the sheriff and the village headman of the Bung Sam Phan subdistrict snooped around schools, industries, and temples in search of drug users and traffickers so that they might be sent for treatment.
There is a high level of respect for monks in Thai society; as a result, seats on the metro in Bangkok are set aside just for those who are pregnant or old. Monks are highly respected members of society, particularly in the more rural regions outside of Bangkok. They often take on the roles of counselors and role models within the local community.
Therefore, it came as quite a shock to Sungyut when he and the sheriff paid a visit to the little temple on Friday and discovered that all four of the monks there had tested positive for the usage of methamphetamine. He said two monks at a different local temple had positive test results.
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However, the Thai Buddhist Temple was evident from the monks' personalities and the way they behaved when they were under the influence of drugs, as Sungyut pointed out. Some local people had provided him with information, asking him to investigate the local temples.
Even the abbot, who had been a monk for ten years and functioned as the monastery's leader, was discovered to be taking illegal substances. Sungyut shared his thoughts by stating, "When I examined the abbot's refuge, I was surprised since it was a mess." According to him, the monks admitted to taking narcotics once the drug test results returned positive. A few came clean and acknowledged being addicted for a very long time.
An ex-officer in Thailand committed a deadly assault on a daycare facility, taking the lives of scores of people, including 24 children.
The controversy in Phetchabun province coincides with a nationwide crackdown on narcotics in response to an October shooting at a daycare center that left 38 people dead, the vast majority of whom were children. The suspect was rumored to be a former police officer who was let go for drug-related reasons.
Administrator Niti Rungjaruenkij claims that all local addicts, including former monks, were admitted to a rehabilitation center on Wednesday. For the monks to enter rehabilitation, Sungyut said they had to relinquish their monastic duties first, calling it "inappropriate" to do so otherwise. When they are no longer dependent on drugs, he said, they can return to their monastic lifestyle if they so choose.
Sungyut said he was initially concerned that the revelations might cause some people's faith to be shaken because of how shocking they were to the community. Initially, he said, the villagers found the monks' wrongdoing to be "very difficult for them," but they have thanked him for his efforts.
After all, he had called them "misbehaving monks," suggesting they leave the order if they could not follow monastic norms.
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