Khon Kaen dean defends handling of monk’s body after family complains

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Khon Kaen dean defends handling of monk’s body after family complains
By KASEM CHANATHINART
THE NATION

 

 

KHON KAEN: -- KHON KAEN University’s Faculty of Medicine has done everything specified by the late Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho’s will and a pagoda will be built at the spot where the revered monk’s body is cremated, faculty dean Dr Chanchai Phanthongwriyakun told a press conference yesterday.

 

Chanchai’s was responding after the late monk’s younger sister Khamman Wongkanchanarat, 91, and relatives filed a request to the Khon Kaen University rector on Tuesday asking to reclaim the monk’s remains on the grounds that the university had breached conditions in the late monk’s will.

 

Chanchai said the faculty spent a year preserving the body before using it as “Kru Yai” teaching material for medical students for two years. Then the monk’s body is scheduled to undergo religious rites and a royally-sponsored cremation ceremony along with 500 other “Kru Yai” bodies in 2018. 

 

“We initially tried to do as the will said. The ceremony would be held either at Wat Nong Waeng or Wat That Muang Khao ... while the cremation might be at a temple, which would be required to build a remembrance pagoda at the site.

 

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[Khon Kaen Dave]

What a coincidence.We've got a monk whose been laying in the temple, in a glass coffin for 100 days.he's as black as the Ace of spades now.We went to his ceremony of putting him on the place where he will stay untill the 25th, when they burn him.It was quite beautiful to watch.All the ladies had to wear pink tops and two tone blue skirts.Mrs Kaen bought one,looked quite stunning.We had to present orange cloth's and we got free chicken, massaman. Oh well,he'll be dust soon, and able to fly all over the world,where ever the winds take him.Nice old monk,he blessed our car when we got it,kind of him to do it for only 300 bht.

RIP old monk.Hope you find Paradise.