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    Wat Dhammakaya denies all charges against Phra Dhammachayo

    Wat Dhammakaya issued a statement on Friday denying all the charges lodged against its abbot, Phra Thepyarnmahamunee or Phra Dhammachayo, by the Department of Special Investigation.

    The statement which was issued by Phra Snidwong Wutthisaro, the director of the Office of Organisational Communications, also appealed for justice from the government and the public.

    The DSI has charged Phra Dhammachayo of the charges of money laundering and receiving stolen properties.

    The statement claimed that the 72-year old abbot of Wat Dhammakaya has performed good deeds for the society for the past 50 years.

    According the statement, Phra Dhammachayo started studying Dhamma in 1963 when he studied at Suan Kularb College and went on studying and practicing meditation a close aide of Luangpor Sod of Wat Paknam Phasicharoen.

    While studying economics at Kasetsart University, Phra Dhammachayo never stopped practicing Dhamma on daily basis until he came to know and got familiar with Khunying Prayad Paetpongsavisutthabodi who donated 190-rai plot of land in Klong Luang district of Pathum Thani to Phra Dhammachayo.

    Beginning with the 190-raid plot of land, Phra Dhammachayo started building up Wat Dhammakaya in 1970. Today, the temple’s ground has expanded to 2,500 rai.

    The statement claimed that the temple under the supervision of Phra Dhammachayo has donated saffron robes to 323 temples every month for the past 12 years and has provided over 30,000 funds for southern teachers.

    Wat Dhammakaya denies all charges against Phra Dhammachayo - Thai PBS English News

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    Border checkpoints tightened up to prevent Dhammachayo from escaping

    The Department of Special Investigation has sought cooperation from the Immigration Bureau to tighten up monitoring of people leaving the country through all 118 immigration checkpoints as a precaution against possible escaping by Phra Dhammachayo.

    Pol Lt-Gen Natthathorn Prohsunthorn, the Immigration Bureau commissioner, said Friday that the embattled abbot’s criminal record and details of his arrest warrant had been computed into the bureau’s computer system and the system would give an alert the monk leaves the country through all the immigration checkpoints.

    An informed DSI source disclosed that the director of Panurangsee army hospital in Ratchaburi had informed the enquiry officers of the DSI that the letter purported issued by the hospital’s deputy director certifying that Phra Dhammachayo was sick was illegal because the embattled abbot had never been treated at the hospital.

    Border checkpoints tightened up to prevent Dhammachayo from escaping - Thai PBS English News

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    DSI to search temple to look for Phra Dhammachayo

    Enquiry officers of the Department of Special Investigation and a special public prosecutor will meet tomorrow (Friday) to discuss about a plan to search Wat Dhammakaya to look for its embattled abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, who missed an appointment with the officers today at Klong Luang police station.

    Special public prosecutor Mr Kachornsak Putthanuparb said today that he expected a search warrant to be issued quickly because an arrest warrant had already been issued against Phra Dhammachayo.

    He explained that a search warrant was needed to search the temple because it is a private property. Also, he said that the DSI had treated the embattled abbot with respect by agreeing with Phra Dhammachayo’s lawyer to meet the monk at Klong Luang police station.

    Asked whether police reinforcement is needed for the temple’s search, Mr Kachornsak said the DSI has enough manpower and is capable of doing the job by itself.

    At about 3.50 today, doctors treating Phra Dhammachayo notified the DSI that the abbot could not turn himself in as appointed at the Klong Luang police station claiming that he suddenly suffered from dizziness and could not travel out of the temple.

    Mr Kachornsak said that DSI had made available an ambulance from the Police General Hospital and a team of three medical specialists at the police station in case the abbot was sick and had to be taken to Thammasat hospital.

    Meanwhile, Dhammachayo’s team of lawyers issued a statement insisting on the abbot’s innocence and his readiness to follow justice process. The lawyers also claimed that the abbot could not make it to the Klong Luang police station because he suddenly suffered from dizziness.

    DSI to search temple to look for Phra Dhammachayo - Thai PBS English News

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    Dhammakhaya Sect Goes Into Siege Mode to Protect Fugitive Abbot

    By Teeranai Charuvastra
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    BANGKOK — Investigators were left scrambling Friday about how to respond Dhammakaya’ announcement its fugitive leader would not surrender to authorities.

    A day after the poweful sect’s abbot refused to turn himself in, the temple went into siege mode Friday morning, urrounding its sprawling complex with thousands of faithful acolytes and barricading the entrances with heavy machinery.

    Secular authorities, who hold a warrant for Dhammachayo’s arrest on allegations of fraud, said they will mount an attempt to arrest the abbot without spilling blood.

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    How come a temple is private property, who is the owner ?

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    The DSI wants to go to the Supreme Sangkha Council now. Considering the presumptive nominee as supreme patriarch is being held up by PADite politics, and Phra Dhammachayo is probably his most prominent disciple, I don't see that getting far.
    Last edited by sabang; 28-05-2016 at 02:41 PM.

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    Have you seen this fella recently? He is very sick and on his last legs, but the PADite lunatics wanna control every element of Thai society and won't stop until they have done so or been stopped from doing so.

    I suspect the monk has less than 3 months to live (judging by the photos of him I saw a couple of days ago), maybe much less, and, having met him personally a few times, can tell folks that he is a genuine monk who has spent the last 15+ years that I've 'known' him working every day to help the poor and needy - he is very genuine. I hasten to add that I don't support this or any religious group, but I'm just pointing out to folks who have no knowledge other than reading a few newspaper articles that he is not a criminal or a fugitive, he is simply a monk who happens to be in the middle of a power struggle due to the ever increasing lunacy of the PAdites/royalists/junta.

    Now, consider the juntas treatment towards the PADite monk or monk suthep or Red Bull driver or, the list goes on...
    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    Thousands shield abbot




    MORE THAN 10,000 people entered Dhammakaya Temple yesterday in a show of support for its embattled abbot Phra Dhammachayo, as authorities sought a way to arrest the high-profile monk.

    more Thousands shield abbot - The Nation

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    Maybe the revolution has begun in a way that nobody expected...Will they now run over them with tanks?...

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    ^ I expected and have been saying this for years. I thought, during the reds in Bkk a few years back that when the army threatened to go in that this wat might march 100,000 monks/nuns down into Bangkok and get the army/abhisit government to backdown, but never happened...

    One of the first things the junta did was turn the DMTV station off; they have always been fearful of the power of Thai buddhism and this wat especially.

    ^^ they get that many nuns/monks every week; that's just a stock picture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    ^ I expected and have been saying this for years. I thought, during the reds in Bkk a few years back that when the army threatened to go in that this wat might march 100,000 monks/nuns down into Bangkok and get the army/abhisit government to backdown, but never happened...

    One of the first things the junta did was turn the DMTV station off; they have always been fearful of the power of Thai buddhism and this wat especially.

    ^^ they get that many nuns/monks every week; that's just a stock picture.
    Yet, one could find all this formal rhetoric a bit odd, even disturbingly contradictory, as this form of proper institutional Thai Buddhism [side cultish sect] has always been of the same mindset and desires as the ruling elite/militarism class - all exist for similar reasons and not truly opposed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    I thought, during the reds in Bkk a few years back that when the army threatened to go in that this wat might march 100,000 monks/nuns down into Bangkok and get the army/abhisit government to backdown, but never happened...
    A possiblity given accusations of an alliance between Dhammakaya and Thaksin.

    "There is a political colour to some of the issues: former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the bęte noir of the Thai royalist establishment, is said to have stepped in when he was in power from 2001 to 2006 to deflect complaints against the abbot. Some in the royalist establishment believe Dhammakaya is part of Thaksin’s power base, analysts say – hence the focus on the sect now.

    Whether that is true is debatable. Regardless, the tentacles of the Dhammakaya sect are firmly entrenched in several layers of Thai society, from top to bottom. If the military regime wants to take on the sect, it may well be biting off far more than it can chew."

    A peek into Thailand's controversial temple Wat Dhammakaya, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

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    That bloody crazy-haired PADite lunatic non-forensic woman is a Dhammakaya follower...

    It's about the royalists controlling every element in Thailand, especially the powerful ones, and that wat has millions and millions of followers, and as everyone knows, Buddhism is the highest institution in Thailand - some folks don't like that...

    The average Thai taxi and bus has numerous pictures and pendants, but the Buddhist ones take the highest position; obviously, the PADites and their thirst for power, don't like that...


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    Quote Originally Posted by StevenR
    People can perform charitable deeds for society and still be criminals. Look at Savile.
    That's an extremely ignorant comment in this context. When you're working on that Chiang Mai golf course, I suggest you don't say such things to the local Thais unless you enjoy protracted spells in hospital...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post

    It's about the royalists controlling every element in Thailand, especially the powerful ones, and that wat has millions and millions of followers, and as everyone knows, Buddhism is the highest institution in Thailand - some folks don't like that...
    Closer to the truth than is comfortable for "some".....as they imagine themselves as Buddhists [faux Buddhists] - part and parcel of the extended bullshittery image.

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    Steven, you don't know the culture here yet you have a big mouth and are quite a know it all - you are a car crash waiting ti happen here; make sure you don't burn all your bridges back in the UK...

    10,000,000 isn't a small institution, and I do not support the place.

    As for your comments above about the temple, you have no idea other than a quick Google search. I have twenty years experience of it, personal attendance from time to time, meeting the monks, etc. Yet, in your ignorance, you still think you know better... &, that is why you will crash and burn here; you have no idea of the culture yet you shoot your mouth off; this won't go down well with the Thais - make sure you update us on your experiences!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Steven, you don't know the culture here yet you have a big mouth and are quite a know it all - you are a car crash waiting ti happen here; make sure you don't burn all your bridges back in the UK...

    As for your comments above about the temple, you have no idea other than a quick Google search. I have twenty years experience of it, personal attendance from time to time, meeting the monks, etc. Yet, in your ignorance, you still think you know better... &, that is why you will crash and burn here; you have no idea of the culture yet you shoot your mouth off; this won't go down well with the Thais - make sure you update us on your experiences!
    Nicely put, Bets....

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    Very amusing to read the fanciful ramblings that this shyster charlatan could be a lightning rod for revolt by his flock of docile sheep, as if the Thai in any numbers would do anything substantive in their lives for no material gain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    Have you seen this fella recently? He is very sick and on his last legs, but the PADite lunatics wanna control every element of Thai society and won't stop until they have done so or been stopped from doing so.
    That's plain bollox Betty.
    He is in cycle of bad luck because he fucked a goat in a previous life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StevenR
    Is this a mainstream Buddhist temple you are showing support for, or a wealthy private institution?
    Explain the difference. It is a massive Buddhist sect, with followers in every rung of Thai society and enormous international reach, that PADite's have managed to drag into politics, along with the Buddhist establishment in general. It will only end in tears, or severe loss of face.

    What you or I may think of it is immaterial, Boddhisattva. Personally, to me it resembles Scientology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StevenR
    ^^ Please refrain from personal attacks.
    You just compared a man respected by millions of Thais to a kiddy fiddler. You know nothing about him, have never met him, heard him speak or known what he looks like (or indeed anything at all about him) until you Googled him/the temple a few minutes ago. After that shameful show of ignorance and malice, you don't get to claim the high ground...

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    Perhaps, those tiger temple tigers could also be moved inside Wat Dhammakaya, so Thai TV can just cover one stand-off live.

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    NCPO: Gathering at Wat Phra Dhammakaya unrelated to politics

    BANGKOK, 31 May 2016 (NNT) – The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has not taken any action against demonstrators at Wat Phra Dhammakaya as their activity is not politically motivated.

    After supporters of Wat Phra Dhammakaya converged on the temple in an attempt to prevent an arrest of abbot Phra Dhammajayo, NCPO Deputy Spokesperson Col Sirichan Ngathong said only responsible authorities would be able to answer the question of whether the gathering is against the law.

    Nonetheless, she noted that the NCPO has yet to order a halt to the activity as it is not related to politics. So far, officers from the Department of Special Investigation who are on duty around the site have not requested any reinforcements.

    Col Sirichan also expressed confidence that the authorities will be able to resolve the issue with utmost caution and care and keep the situation from exacerbating. As for police checkpoints set up near the temple, she clarified that they are only part of the NCPO’s regular security routine.

    - See more at: ?????????????????? : NCPO: Gathering at Wat Phra Dhammakaya unrelated to politics

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    Nobody but the accused can make an official denial.
    They should all be arrested for obstruction of justice.

    As has been said....if the supporters are so adamant that the monk is innocent, then they should have no problem with him proving himself to the court and the rest of the country.....and world.
    Their actions suggest they fear he will lose.

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