8 hours ago, meechai said:

How do you know you live in a Junta controlled dictatorship?

When they start telling monks how much humor they can have

All of which, will be largely ignored. 

I do hope that you [et al] realize that this make believe House Committee are just going through the motions, because it what they do. 

On 9/9/2021 at 5:07 AM, RJRS1301 said:

Oh dear, has no one told them the Dali Lama loves to laugh and makes jokes himself.

Most Thai monks have no idea who the Dali Lama is.  

11 minutes ago, khaowong1 said:

Most Thai monks have no idea who the Dali Lama is.  

Most? As in the stereotypical painting with a broad brush and the ever popular give it a guess practice? 

That must've been quite the taxing effort to conduct such a thorough survey and interaction of all monks. 

Buddhism is serious, however the Thai government is a total laugh...  Imagine, a monk with a humor,

that is refreshing. 

Geezer

Didn't these guys get the memo? The Buddha is for lucky lottery numbers only!

 

 

Rest assured, they'll have the last laugh..

10 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Most? As in the stereotypical painting with a broad brush and the ever popular give it a guess practice? 

That must've been quite the taxing effort to conduct such a thorough survey and interaction of all monks. 

zzaa, I was a monk in Thailand for 7 years.  Not one Thai monk I ever met knew who the Dali Lama was.  Some I met from Sri Lanka and India, yes, Thai, no. 

11 hours ago, khaowong1 said:

Most Thai monks have no idea who the Dali Lama is.  

I was actually referring to The House committee on religions, persons.

 

For those who might have an interests or the least bit curious. 

 

 

14 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

For those who might have an interests or the least bit curious. 

 

 

Thanks, I passed this on to some Thai monk friends.  I don't speak Thai, they will tell me what's being said. 

10 hours ago, khaowong1 said:

Thanks, I passed this on to some Thai monk friends.  I don't speak Thai, they will tell me what's being said. 

They sure have the current popularity on a number of Thai news/public affairs/chat programing of the last week...

13 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

They sure have the current popularity on a number of Thai news/public affairs/chat programing of the last week...

I spoke to several Thai friends including some long time monks.  The Thai civilians didn't think it was funny or right for these 2 monks to be talking and laughing like they were.  The Thai monks I talked to thought it was funny, didn't think it was that bad, but thought they were a little silly for putting it on YouTube for everyone to see.