Word: freemans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wrote up the grant proposal, and, after securing the company of roommate Patrick Toomey ’03 by promising a little backpacking, the 6’3, 180-lb. Prasse-Freeman set out in mid-June to visit monks and young, poverty-stricken girls...
...felt like if I was going to do it, I wanted to help people,” Prasse-Freeman says. “There’s a lot of sympathy for the prostitutes. There’s really a lot of sympathy for everybody...
...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...