Oh Buddha! Now monks have set up their own booze den

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Picture: INN

 

A whole bunch of monks in Pathum Thani have been busted after they set up a mini shanty town.

 

It was their own private booze den where they'd get wasted instead of going back to the temple, reported INN. 

 

The parishioners in the area were not amused with the irregular behaviour.

 

Behaviour that seems to be becoming the norm recently with a host of negative stories about Thailand's clergy.

 

Picture: INN

 

After social media posts featuring 7 boozy monks and a car being used for the alms round, Klong Luang district chief Nitichai Wiriyanon sent in his minions and religious officials to an area off the Bang Khan - Nong Seua Road. 

 

There were four monks there getting merrily drunk when they should have been doing their holy rounds. 

 

Large numbers of spirits (the liquid kind) and beer bottles were scattered about.

 

Picture: INN

 

Phra Sorayuth admitted the booze den had been going on for ages and, yes, he did partake of earthly liquor.

 

Phra Manoon admitted it was him in the car on social media though he did say he sometimes took a taxi for his "bintabaht" (alms round).

 

The abbot Phra Kru Monkholkitrajak ordered action and four were taken for a swift defrocking.

 

Three others were sent back to another temple. 

 

Picture: INN

 

Other stories in the Thai press recently included a monk doing a runner from paying a restaurant and booze tab in Sattahip and another one pulling a gun and firing on the faithful in a dispute over land. 

 

A large number of rifles were found in his holy quarters. 

 

Yet another was with a scantily clad woman, with a bra found discarded by the stairs and a case of wine cooler "used for religious purposes". 

 

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[Henk Langeweg]

Good, never forget what's really important ... cheers.

[sammieuk1]

It's not a booze den it's a spirit house where mysterious things can be seen after emptying bottles ???? 

[OneMoreFarang]

Maybe it's time to ask why monks are monks in Thailand.

How many of them want to learn and live a humble life?

[worgeordie]

Could have been worse , no naked ladies or small boys.....

regards worgeordie

[asiaexpat]

Thailand's Monastic society has lost its purpose and become nothing but a place for debtors, criminals and lowlifes to get free food and housing. As a Buddhist, I am appalled at the conduct.

[sammieuk1]

15 minutes ago, asiaexpat said:

Thailand's Monastic society has lost its purpose and become nothing but a place for debtors, criminals and lowlifes to get free food and housing. As a Buddhist, I am appalled at the conduct.

Don't be to appalled remember where you are ????

[RichardColeman]

This lot make the dwellers at the Mos Eisley cantina look tame

[Card]

Why not? It's a hard life being a devout monk 

[klauskunkel]

A gaggle of geese, a flock of sheep and 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

a bunch of monks

walk into a bar...

[grain]

Been my opinion for many years now that a great many Thai monks are low life bottom feeding scumbag Thai men who have nothing going for them...no education, no skills, no job...and they go to a temple put on an orange robe and Hey Presto! an instant holy man who gets free housing, free food, free gifts, and perhaps most of all gets revered and have people groveling at their feet. 

[AhFarangJa]

What a S^^t tip. I guess they were waiting for a miracle to clean up all the rubbish. They should be fined for littering too.

[JimmyJ]

It's almost as if they are regular people only stupider.

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The abbot Phra Kru Monkholkitrajak ordered action and four were taken for a swift defrocking.

shock 

[Excel]

8 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Maybe it's time to ask why monks are monks in Thailand.

How many of them want to learn and live a humble life?

I think zero is the answer. Just like most state sponsered organisations here it is just nothing but a lucrative scam..

[soalbundy]

7 hours ago, asiaexpat said:

Thailand's Monastic society has lost its purpose and become nothing but a place for debtors, criminals and lowlifes to get free food and housing. As a Buddhist, I am appalled at the conduct.

Best job they ever had.

[Knocker33]

Lazy bunch of parasite's. 

[Doctor Tom]

And this is a surprise why?  I have no time for any of them. 

[EVENKEEL]

Couldn't they at least pick up all the MT bottles and keep their drinking den clean.

[StayinThailand2much]

12 hours ago, Henk Langeweg said:

Good, never forget what's really important ... cheers.

No-one knows to party like monks in Thailand!

[khaowong1]

I'm pretty surprised about this.  But not too.  I've actually spent my time as a monk at 4 temples.  Three of them, the abbot knew where we were pretty much all the time.  I stayed at a 4th temple on the West bank of the Chao Pryha river in Bangkok and the abbot there didn't seem to know anything about anyone. But in the smaller temples outside the larger cities, the abbots keep in touch with their monks.  Every temple has their problem monks.  But to have 3 or 4 monks, off the temple grounds, hanging in some hut getting drunk, sounds like to me a abbot problem also.  

[ThailandRyan]

Dirty unkempt Monks who litter like most Thai's, no wonder they need parishioners to clean up the Wat as they are too lazy to pick up after themselves and are drunk most of the day.  So much for the donations being used for good they are used to buy booze.  Why not just put a Kegerator in the Wat and make it look like a giant M-150 can.....

 

[brianthainess]

Just a bunch of unemployable lazy free loading bums with very dodgy ethics and backgrounds. IMO

[Stargeezr]

Why was only one of them defrocked?  I have to wonder if the Buddhist religion is

so corrupt that 3 were only transferred. Sounds more like the RTP getting transferred instead

of fired as well. TIT.

[carlyai]

On 2/23/2022 at 1:08 PM, asiaexpat said:

Thailand's Monastic society has lost its purpose and become nothing but a place for debtors, criminals and lowlifes to get free food and housing. As a Buddhist, I am appalled at the conduct.

Not in our forest temple, but suppose you've never been to Isaan.

[asiaexpat]

Actually lived in Issan many years, where I was tutored in Buddhism by a devote Abbot (50 years ago.) Much has changed since then. 

[ThailandRyan]

31 minutes ago, Stargeezr said:

Why was only one of them defrocked?  I have to wonder if the Buddhist religion is

so corrupt that 3 were only transferred. Sounds more like the RTP getting transferred instead

of fired as well. TIT.

Moved to inactive posts where they can handle the money directly...

[carlyai]

13 minutes ago, asiaexpat said:

Actually lived in Issan many years, where I was tutored in Buddhism by a devote Abbot (50 years ago.) Much has changed since then. 

Yes but not everywhere. ????

[toofarnorth]

18 hours ago, hotchilli said:

shock 

Indeed ! Keep your frocks on please.

[Moonlover]

54 minutes ago, Stargeezr said:

Why was only one of them defrocked?  I have to wonder if the Buddhist religion is

so corrupt that 3 were only transferred. Sounds more like the RTP getting transferred instead

of fired as well. TIT.

 

On 2/23/2022 at 7:00 AM, webfact said:

The abbot Phra Kru Monkholkitrajak ordered action and four were taken for a swift defrocking.

 

Three others were sent back to another temple. 

 I presume the three who were 'sent back to another temple' can only be defrocked by their own abbot. (if he so chooses to)