BBC: 'Etiquette guide' for Thai monks (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8020311.stm)
QuoteA Buddhist preacher in Thailand has announced plans for new guidelines aimed at curbing the flamboyant behaviour of gay and transgender monks.
The "good manners" curriculum - the country's first - is being introduced in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
The senior monk told the BBC he was particularly concerned by effeminate activities among novices such as the wearing of make-up and tight robes.
More than 90% of the Thai population are followers of Buddhism.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says tales of monks behaving badly are nothing new in Thailand.
In recent years, they have been accused of abuses of their exalted position in society that range from amassing dozens of luxury cars, to running fake amulet scams, to violating their vows of celibacy, our correspondent says.
Senior monk Phra Maha Wudhijaya Vajiramedhi told the BBC he would address issues like smoking, drinking alcohol, walking and going to the toilet properly, which are all detailed in the traditional 75 Dharma principles of Buddhism, and the 227 precepts for monks.
He was especially concerned, he said, by the flamboyant behaviour of gay and transgender monks, who can often be seen wearing revealingly tight robes, carrying pink purses and having effeminately-shaped eyebrows.
Thailand has a very large and visible population of transgender men, and Phra Vajiramedhi acknowledged that it was difficult to exclude them from the monkhood but he hoped his course could at least persuade them to curb their more extrovert habits.
If successful, the "good manners" course, at the Novice Demonstration School, would be replicated at other Buddhist monasteries and seminaries, he said.
Somehow the idea of a Buddhist monk with "revealingly tight robes, carrying pink purses" makes me giggle. :lol:
How long till Marcin's whambulance radar goes off and he posts in thread?
More hard hitting journalism from Jonathan Head. I'm gonna bottle that fuckhead in the face if I ever see him again.
I've never seen a ladyboy monk before. I can't imagine many would do it, they spend years growing out their hair, they wouldn't shave it voluntarily.
Quote from: katmai on May 03, 2009, 06:59:56 AM
How long till Marcin's whambulance radar goes off and he posts in thread?
Why do you assume that he posts in every thread that has to do with homosexuality? :huh:
Quote from: Syt on May 03, 2009, 07:09:38 AM
Quote from: katmai on May 03, 2009, 06:59:56 AM
How long till Marcin's whambulance radar goes off and he posts in thread?
Why do you assume that he posts in every thread that has to do with homosexuality? :huh:
6 years of history, kinda like you'll post in weird ass cannablistic threads :P
Syt, enough of this. Some of us are trying to eat breakfast.
Quote from: katmai on May 03, 2009, 07:12:47 AM
6 years of history, kinda like you'll post in weird ass cannablistic threads :P
We don't have many of those, though. :(
Quote from: katmai on May 03, 2009, 06:59:56 AM
How long till Marcin's whambulance radar goes off and he posts in thread?
And yet he hates religion almost as much as he hates himself.
You are a religion!
BURN IN HELL, SENIOR MONK PHRA MAHA WUDHIJAYA VAJIRAMEDHI :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on May 03, 2009, 01:00:59 PM
BURN IN HELL, SENIOR MONK PHRA MAHA WUDHIJAYA VAJIRAMEDHI :mad:
NO HELLO KITTY PURSES, NO PEACE! :mad:
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on May 03, 2009, 07:06:41 AM
More hard hitting journalism from Jonathan Head. I'm gonna bottle that fuckhead in the face if I ever see him again.
I've never seen a ladyboy monk before. I can't imagine many would do it, they spend years growing out their hair, they wouldn't shave it voluntarily.
You've met this guy before? What's the story?
Don't know him personally but I know of him and have seen him a couple times. Just hate the dude, horrible journalist who will do anything to get published. Although, maybe that makes him a good journalist. :lol:
Quote from: katmai on May 03, 2009, 06:59:56 AM
How long till Marcin's whambulance radar goes off and he posts in thread?
:ph34r:
well first off those monks would be transgender women, not Trans men. :contract: and secondly as DP says I can't imagine this being much of a problem. no swine flu in Thailand I guess.... gotta make up some news.
Quote from: Martinus on May 03, 2009, 02:31:15 PM:ph34r:
Must feel nice to have everyone waiting for you like that :P
Kevin
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on May 05, 2009, 12:08:07 PM
well first off those monks would be transgender women, not Trans men. :contract: and secondly as DP says I can't imagine this being much of a problem. no swine flu in Thailand I guess.... gotta make up some news.
Yeah, this was only in foreign news as far as I know, and I'm guessing the foreign reporter specifically asked about this in order to get a story, and got a response about how they need to be modest as well. Thai news was obsessed with Swine Flu at the time, as there were several people hospitalized with symptoms.
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on May 05, 2009, 12:08:07 PM
well first off those monks would be transgender women, not Trans men. :contract:
No they wouldn't. They were born men, and so men is what they are.