Before I post anything I must tell you I have no links at all, just watched it on TV. It might be a few years old I don't know.
As you are all aware Thais have the obsession with Buddhism making Merit and so on. You see poor people spending money on gifts and so on. In the mean time monks getting rich, having sex buying mobile phones, selling drugs and what ever Just 1 Temple got exposed for hiding 4 billion in the Forrest and other hideouts and receiving 140 million from the Government at the same time. Young novices got beaten by head monks and never been reported and not helped the families. So why are Thais so in to Buddhism? Are there brainwashed? Not a rant OK just a normal question.