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...that wasn’t too serious a setback, because Prasse-Freeman wanted mostly to talk to Buddhist monks and NGO workers in Thailand who would help him answer the religious and political questions...
...talked to monks a lot about what the sangha’s role in the issues of social justice,” Prasse-Freeman says. (Sangha means “community of monks.”) “What should their role be? I had a lot of doctrinal questions about where spiritual Buddhism and mainstream idolic Buddhism diverge...
Earlier research had shown that some monks were directly involved in corrupt practices like owning brothels or gambling parlors. From interviews with academics, local officials and international volunteers, Prasse-Freeman got a sense of how enormously sad the situation in Thailand has become...
...Prostitutes] are as young as seven, and the thinking there is that they’re too young to have AIDS,” Prasse-Freeman says. “The phenomenon began during the Vietnam War, when GIs on leave came to Thailand. After the war, demand plummeted, so they began doing these ‘sex tours’ as a way to bring business back up. Now, however, there is also a lot of local Thai...
Like he often is after a subpar effort on the basketball court, Prasse-Freeman was hard on himself. He determined that his research was incomplete and that he didn’t have the tools to write about what he wanted to exactly. So, in the past few weeks, he changed his topic to something else he had been exploring while in Asia—the phenomenon of internally displaced people in Burma due to ongoing civil strife...