Women dressed as monks seeking alms cause stir in Nakhon Pathom | Bangkok Post: breakingnews
Female monks cause a stir
Residents of tambon Bang Krathuek in Sam Phran district of Nakhon Pathom province want the National Office of Buddhism to investigate a group of women who don yellow robes and go out seeking alms every morning, just like Buddhist monks.
- Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 10.03
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Buddhist nuns traditionally wear white robes.
Many locals were surprised by the sight but did not suspect anything wrong. Some were even unaware that they were females.
According to a report in Daily News, a local motorcycle taxi driver whose name was given as Somphol showed a video clip of three women aged 40-50 dressed in yellow robes like monks and carrying alms bowls.
Mr Sompol said he had never seen such a thing prior to December last year. They regularly walked down from Phutthamonthon Sai 5 Road to their lodging near Wat Don Wai. Normally, there were four of them, he added.
They did not stay in a temple, but in some type of building with high security, according to Mr Sompol.
A local food vendor said that she has been working in the area for a long time but until recently had not seen any female monks. She had asked local police to investigate the matter, but so far no progress semed to have been made.
The food vendor said that female monks are allowed in India and Sri Lanka, but she did not think they were permitted in Thailand. If they were, she would like her daughter enter the monkhood too.
She wants a responsible agency to check whether they are real monks or not.
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24-01-2013, 11:25 AM #1Out there...
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Nakhon Pathom: Female monks cause a stir
"Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction; ambition and intrigue take advantage of the credulity and inexperience of men who have no political, economic or civil knowledge. They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice."-Simón Bolívar
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Hmmm...new shade of yellow, I suppose.
They're called bikkhuni, fully ordained. Whether or not they are legit is anybody's guess, but same same with the dudes in orange. They are very rare in Theravada Buddhist countries (Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka), but widely-known in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist countries.
Why somebody would object to an earnest and harmless spiritual practitioner of unusual gender is beyond me...Gautama Buddha was said to have ordained women, including his own family members.
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Perhaps they' are rare in Thailand, but not so in Sri Lanka. Here female Buddhist monks are quite common in the larger cities.
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