Facebook uproar over woman sitting in Ayutthaya Buddha’s lap

By The Nation

 

Photo from Ayothaya Group's Facebook page

 

Another disrespectful tourist posing for pictures among the monuments of Ayutthaya has drawn the ire of the Thai Facebook community.

 

The unidentified woman, believed to be Asian, was pictured sitting in the lap of a large Buddha statue at Wat Yai Chai Mongkol.

 

A Facebook user under the name Nopporn Chompirom posted the photo on Thursday, saying he didn’t take it, but rather someone who gave it to him to post online in the hope that authorities would take action.

 

Nopporn said the photographer was on an upper deck of the Chai Mongkol Pagoda on Wednesday when he noticed the woman sitting on the sacred Buddha image below.

 

By the time he came down, the woman and her friend had disappeared.

 

King Naresuan built the pagoda to celebrate a battle victory and the Buddha statue, Phra Ratana Nimman, was added in 1961 on the pagoda’s northeast side.

 

Wat Yai Chai Mongkol deputy abbot Phrakru Sirichai Mongkol said there were too few temple officials to ensure that tourists behaved properly.

 

He said signs would be erected urging visitors to be respectful.

 

Ayutthaya Historical Park Office director Sukanya Baonerd was disturbed by the photo posted this week and said a complaint would be filed with police.

 

Sukanya said her office would instruct tour guides to control their foreign clients better when visiting historic sites.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30340566

 

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Sheesh!  Stop being so damn sensitive, Thai people.  And while you're at it, try actually learning what Buddha taught, instead of this Thai crap you call "Buddhism".  

 

For starters, Buddha SPECIFICALLY told his followers NOT to pray to him when he died, as he was NOT a god, but ONLY A MAN, and prayers to him would be wasted.  

 

There is no such thing as true Buddhism in Thailand, only a lot of mumbo, jumbo superstition dressed in orange robes that's a fake as a $3 bill. 

Sure that Buddha wouldn't be as as excited as 'the good Thai Buddhists'.....

Any storm on social media is always created by the deep rooted xenophobia....."see what the foreigners did"

Buddha himself would probably have a good laugh....

These bloody tourists making us ‘farangs’ look bad! I’m so angry! Prison for this person until she learns to respect others’ cultures! Oh wait, she’s Asian.

 

Meh, who cares. 

 

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Wat Yai Chai Mongkol deputy abbot Phrakru Sirichai Mongkol said there were too few temple officials to ensure that tourists behaved properly.

 

I've seen a few monks window shopping DVDs at Pantip Plaza. Perhaps they could volunteer.

I'm really concerned by this "Buddhist extremism" spreading to popular culture as this Facebook outrage reveals. Never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. What has become of the open-minded, tolerant wisdom I knew? the monks encouraging me to participate in rites in wats although I'm an agnostic and I knew nothing about these,  then gently smiling at my gross mistakes following the rites with "mai pen rai"?

I thought that Buddhism was immune to the foolishness we witness in Islam or Christianism. It's no longer. We're seeing Buddhist jihadism showing its ugly head in Myanmar with pogroms, and extremist preachers gaining ground there and now spreading to Thailand as well. Wait until some of them making their motto that homosexuality, sex outside marriage is an offense to the teachings of the Lord Buddha and that non-believers or believers of other religions are an enemy to fight and the real ugliness of this will start to show off for good.

Sheesh!  Stop being so damn sensitive, Thai people.  And while you're at it, try actually learning what Buddha taught, instead of this Thai crap you call "Buddhism".  
 
For starters, Buddha SPECIFICALLY told his followers NOT to pray to him when he died, as he was NOT a god, but ONLY A MAN, and prayers to him would be wasted.  
 
There is no such thing as true Buddhism in Thailand, only a lot of mumbo, jumbo superstition dressed in orange robes that's a fake as a $3 bill. 

I'd agree with that.

I used to visit a Buddhist temple in the UK. The monk in charge was English, he chastised the mainly Thai visitors for their attitude towards the religion.
He also said exactly the same about not praying to Buddha.

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1 hour ago, Just1Voice said:

Sheesh!  Stop being so damn sensitive, Thai people.  And while you're at it, try actually learning what Buddha taught, instead of this Thai crap you call "Buddhism".  

 

For starters, Buddha SPECIFICALLY told his followers NOT to pray to him when he died, as he was NOT a god, but ONLY A MAN, and prayers to him would be wasted.  

 

There is no such thing as true Buddhism in Thailand, only a lot of mumbo, jumbo superstition dressed in orange robes that's a fake as a $3 bill. 

It's all about winning the Lottery or being lucky in business.

Buddha would be totally pissed off if he see what Buddhism has come down to in Thailand.

Some Thai people act as if they own Buddhism. 

 

Wasn't Buddha quite a ladies man before he went all holy?

1 hour ago, Darcula said:

 

I've seen a few monks window shopping DVDs at Pantip Plaza. Perhaps they could volunteer.

Great shout. Get the boys in orange out there with a whistle and a cosh, that'll put an end to these crimes against culture. 

Retard. Nuff said.

7 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Wasn't Buddha quite a ladies man before he went all holy?

Don't tell anyone this, he was Indian as well.

I'll get slated now for being racist but, people have no idea how little I care.

8 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Don't tell anyone this, he was Indian as well.

I'll get slated now for being racist but, people have no idea how little I care.

No way,   i thought he was Thai !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

22 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

No way,   i thought he was Thai !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Can't understand why he isn't wearing a turban. ?

19 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Can't understand why he isn't wearing a turban. ?

That's easy to explain to you,  Siddhartha Gautama was a Hindu prince born in Lumbini, Nepal, only Sikhs wear turbans. 

10 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

That's easy to explain to you,  Siddhartha Gautama was a Hindu prince born in Lumbini, Nepal, only Sikhs wear turbans. 

Ah. Seek ? and you shall find.

( Sheikh or Sheihk )?

Edited March 9, 20188 yr by overherebc

A post containing misquoted content has been removed. 

"Ayutthaya Historical Park Office director Sukanya Baonerd was disturbed by the photo posted this week and said a complaint would be filed with police."

 

Oh please, <deleted>

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Don't tell anyone this, he was Indian as well.

I'll get slated now for being racist but, people have no idea how little I care.

 

He was born in what is now Nepal, place called Lumbini, to the west of Kathmandu.

I understand that's where the Thai place name Lumphini comes from, not that many Thais realise that.

 

3 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

 

He was born in what is now Nepal, place called Lumbini, to the west of Kathmandu.

I understand that's where the Thai place name Lumphini comes from, not that many Thais realise that.

 

And many are insulted when you tell them. Easy to understand that when you see their reaction to the many Indians in Thailand.

9 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

 

He was born in what is now Nepal, place called Lumbini, to the west of Kathmandu.

I understand that's where the Thai place name Lumphini comes from, not that many Thais realise that.

 

Brings back memories of 'Mad Carrew' that does. ?

1 minute ago, overherebc said:

Brings back memories of 'Mad Carrew' that does. ?

I thought that was a bovine disease.

"Facebook Uproar"

Good thing that uproar is about as meaningful as a Facebook friend, or Facebook like or...well, you get it.

 

3 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Sheesh!  Stop being so damn sensitive, Thai people.  And while you're at it, try actually learning what Buddha taught, instead of this Thai crap you call "Buddhism".  

 

For starters, Buddha SPECIFICALLY told his followers NOT to pray to him when he died, as he was NOT a god, but ONLY A MAN, and prayers to him would be wasted.  

 

There is no such thing as true Buddhism in Thailand, only a lot of mumbo, jumbo superstition dressed in orange robes that's a fake as a $3 bill. 

Wise words. I've seen monks who bought porn at the Laotian border then got caught when selling copies of them. I've seen the monk who made jaba parties and sold a lot of drugs to teenagers.

 

    And I've read enough to understand how little Thais actually know about their own Buddha, who seems to be so different to other Buddhas, or better said believers of Theravada Buddhism. 

 

   

 

   

 

    

 

  

 

    

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Another disrespectful tourist posing for pictures among the monuments of Ayutthaya has drawn the ire of the Thai Facebook community.

 

The unidentified woman, believed to be Asian,

wow, another dimension to the paper-thin thai egos; this time they do not know whether she is the ugly,actually-unwanted tourist Or perhaps thai , yet the supposition stands, with no basis

21 minutes ago, HLover said:

"Facebook Uproar"

Good thing that uproar is about as meaningful as a Facebook friend, or Facebook like or...well, you get it.

Mark Zuckerberg didn't really know what he created for Thailand. Now all and everything can be seen on Facebook. A drug smoking rockstar, ( what an idiot), countless accidents where many people must have died on motorbikes and in cars, people get killed when they see that their Tirac's chatting with other men, (happened in Khon Kaen), people show when a foreigner get's beaten up, because that's fun for Thais, Foreigners with golden hearts and too many Tattoos who show others how to pray, are shown nationwide and make others feel useless, two gay men who show their asses at a temple, ( who wants to see that?), a lot of people who pull guns when the traffic gets too weird, countless arrests of foreigners on private Facebook pages, foreigners who fell off their condors, all on someone's Facebook page, and many other stuff that shouldn't be available for all. 

 

  I'm happy that I grew up at a time where Mark Zuckerberg wasn't born, or a child. 

Edited March 9, 20188 yr by jenny2017

2 hours ago, stanleycoin said:

No way,   i thought he was Thai !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Of course he was, according to many Thai's, just another hub - this time the hub of Buddhism.

Edited March 9, 20188 yr by Artisi

The tourists should be more respectful. It is not toy!

The problem I see is not one of decorum, because there must be rules and good people ought to follow them; and it's not a problem of religion per se, because no one can parse the variety of absurd and indulgent beliefs in which people worldwide wrap themselves; and it's not even a problem of Facebook. The problem is that in all these reports-- selfie on a statue's lap, feet up on the headrest of a train, and a host of other "uncouth aliens" stories--  is that we never encounter a local person willing and able to approach and educate the transgressors in a constructive way. Instead, they rush to post photos and critiques online, which have no corrective effect. The news here is not foreign ignorance, which is to be expected, but local cowardice.

1 minute ago, Anak Nakal said:

The tourists should be more respectful. It is not toy!

I think most posters will agree with you here....Try to respect local culture wherever you go..

But sitting on a concrete statue (however insensitive) is hardly a crime against humanity.....