Except during the formal ceremony-such as when the naag swears to uphold ten major precepts to become a novice monk, and an oral examination to become a full monk -neither the laity nor the monks feel constrained to remain silent...

A monk may leave the monkhood any time he wishes The Thai ordination is a public notice of a man’s intention to follow the Buddha’s teaching...

As in medieval Europe, most early Thai scholars were clerics whose major monastic activity was to teach the unlettered...

Unlike karate, aikido, and many other styles, kung fu is technically an umbrella term that represents the whole of Chinese martial arts...

The Temple of Chicago has much in common with the Temple of New York Located in a big crowded city with a large number of Thai people, it is frequented by devotees and visitors, busy with day-to-day ceremonies, and large numbers gather for religious and cultural celebrations...

Overnight, a new temple called “Vajiradhammapadip Temple” was established at 179th Street in West Bronx...

To have a clearer picture of the situation, what has been described above can be put in other words While the future of Buddhism depends in the first place on the good education of the monks and novices, most of the Thai monks and novices now, the great majority of whom are in rural areas, count among the less educated people of the country...

A weakness which contributed to the failure of the Buddhists was that they were powerful only in a negative sense...

It should be noted that there is a great difference as regards the social background of the monks in the traditional Thai society in the past and that of the monks in the modern times...

Cambodia has also shared the same Buddhist tradition with Thailand and Laos, since the beginning of her modern history...

LAOTIAN BUDDHISM TAKES A NEW TURN Though a small country with a small population, Laos was strong religiously...

POLITICIZING WHILE INVIGORATING BURMESE BUDDHISM Burma under British rule was not so much subject to religious suppression as Ceylon...

After Independence in 1948, the identification between Buddhism and nationalism continued and even led to the politicization of the Ceylonese Sangha...

In India, the Pala line was brought to an end in BE...

The third son of Phoh Khun Sriindraditya, Phoh Khun Ramkamhaeng, succeeded to the throne of Thailand in B...

The Buddhist brotherhood is composed of four assemblies of Buddhists, namely, monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen...

Today, although the spread of the government system of education has brought modern schools to replace the traditional schools, and though fewer monks teach in schools of the new system, most of the public and government schools are still housed in monastery buildings or located in the compounds of monasteries...

For the fortunate few, life isn’t complete without a backpacking trip through Europe This right of passage is believed to further the maturation process of college students, according to sociologists...