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I spend a lot of time in a large village in central Thailand. A pair of 10 year-old twin boys that I know well entered a local temple as novices in April.

They went trough all the usual ceremonies and ended up with shaved heads and orange robes. They live with the other novices in a building in a remote corner of the tempel.

The boys told me a strange story about life in the novice building. They say that the older novices beat up the new young novices. They get plenty of food, but some of the things the boys tell seem to belong in a story about life in a 19th century English boarding school.

This is very far from my ideas of life in a Thai buddist temple. I hope the boys were just making fun of me and making up stories that are not true.

please send details of temple to cittadhammo he is a farang monk and can check for you

Why not let the staff stay for free in one of your hotel rooms ?

just a thought, would also keep them safe