Word: ekachai
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...money begging, but it's wrong," she says. According to Thongdee, a bogus monk can net as much as $2,250 a month. Most fake monks come from villages like this in Chaiyaphum province in the poor northeast, and "poverty is what drives them to do it," says Sanitsuda Ekachai, a religion writer for the Bangkok Post. Some villages knowingly use bogus monks for ceremonies, she says, because, as many real monks gravitate to larger temples in big cities, there is a shortage of genuine holy men. Fake monks do the same, says Sawoey, with gangs of them descending...
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