By Keo Pech Metta
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Buddhist Khmer Krom people as well as the administrators of the Serey Ta Sek pagoda, located in Chrauy Nho district, Khleang province (Soc Trang in Vietnamese), Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam), sent a petition the religious clergy and the Vietnamese authority not to defrock 2 Buddhist monks from the Serey Ta Sek pagoda. Those who signed the petition believed that the 2 monks have not done anything wrong against Buddhist law to earn such defrocking.
A monk from Kampuchea Krom who declined to give his name and who is acting as a representative of the Serey Ta Sek pagoda assembly, told RFA by phone that according to Buddhist customs, a monk can be defrocked only if he contravene Buddhist law. However, in the case of the 2 monks from Serey Ta Sek pagoda, they are only suspected of leading a demonstration participated by 200 student-monks so that they can go out to beg for their alms on 08 Feb 2007.
The same source also added that the Serey Ta Sek pagoda assembly cannot claim whether the demonstration was right or wrong, because all they heard was only the monks asking the authority to allow them to go out to beg for their daily alms. If indeed, this was the fault the 2 monks are accused of, there is no ground for defrocking them and that it would be better to re-educate them. “The Buddhist clergy should re-educate them, but let them remain as monk as normal. Regarding Buddhist law, the fact that they ask for food is not against the Buddhist law.”
Monks Thach Duoc and Kim Mean who have been singled out by the Vietnamese authority to be defrocked, said that no matter what, they refused to be defrocked because they have not done anything wrong towards Buddhism, nor did they oppose the Vietnamese law.
Monk Thach Duoc added: “On the day of the incident, the Vietnamese authority brought cars and equipments to block the road going out from Khleang Pagoda, preventing the student-monks, almost 200 of them, from getting out to go beg for alms. All the monks agreed to ask the Vietnamese authority to let them out. That’s all it was.”
Than, a Vietnamese official from department of ethnic religions in Long Phu district, Khleang province, said that the religious department and the monk clergy are meeting to resolve this issue: “We don’t know [the outcome] yet, they are just starting the meeting, they have not yet come up with a solution.”
Buddhist Khmer people as well as the administrators of Serey Ta Sek pagoda, said that they are waiting for a resolution from the monk clergy and the Vietnamese authority, but they insist that the 2 monks should not be defrocked because they have not done anything wrong.
A monk from Kampuchea Krom who declined to give his name and who is acting as a representative of the Serey Ta Sek pagoda assembly, told RFA by phone that according to Buddhist customs, a monk can be defrocked only if he contravene Buddhist law. However, in the case of the 2 monks from Serey Ta Sek pagoda, they are only suspected of leading a demonstration participated by 200 student-monks so that they can go out to beg for their alms on 08 Feb 2007.
The same source also added that the Serey Ta Sek pagoda assembly cannot claim whether the demonstration was right or wrong, because all they heard was only the monks asking the authority to allow them to go out to beg for their daily alms. If indeed, this was the fault the 2 monks are accused of, there is no ground for defrocking them and that it would be better to re-educate them. “The Buddhist clergy should re-educate them, but let them remain as monk as normal. Regarding Buddhist law, the fact that they ask for food is not against the Buddhist law.”
Monks Thach Duoc and Kim Mean who have been singled out by the Vietnamese authority to be defrocked, said that no matter what, they refused to be defrocked because they have not done anything wrong towards Buddhism, nor did they oppose the Vietnamese law.
Monk Thach Duoc added: “On the day of the incident, the Vietnamese authority brought cars and equipments to block the road going out from Khleang Pagoda, preventing the student-monks, almost 200 of them, from getting out to go beg for alms. All the monks agreed to ask the Vietnamese authority to let them out. That’s all it was.”
Than, a Vietnamese official from department of ethnic religions in Long Phu district, Khleang province, said that the religious department and the monk clergy are meeting to resolve this issue: “We don’t know [the outcome] yet, they are just starting the meeting, they have not yet come up with a solution.”
Buddhist Khmer people as well as the administrators of Serey Ta Sek pagoda, said that they are waiting for a resolution from the monk clergy and the Vietnamese authority, but they insist that the 2 monks should not be defrocked because they have not done anything wrong.
5 comments:
Again, Politic and Religion should
not mixed, and the Hanoi Admin. has
the duty to preserve the quality
of Religion in vietnam and not
allowing any KK to use it as a
tool to destroy Vietnam as they
did to Cambodia.
10:52AM !
Have you been molested by khmer krom as a child i wondered?
Wow, KK molested children too?
3:00PM didn't seem to understand the substance of the question from 1:07PM. Well, since he is a Yuon pretending to be Khmer, he doesn't quite understand Khmer mentality.
I think he was just a Yuon child who was born prematurely. His mother had too many boyfriends before his birth. After his birth, he must have been molested by his mother's boyfriends.
He is still loyal to his native country despite the fact that his adopted country Cambodia has given him everything. That's the Yuon mentality.
No, Yuon is KK or KY (Khmer-Yuon),
just as Khmer-American is American,
and they have lived together with
real-yuons happily for centuries
now. Only a few of Khmer-Youns are
not happy with the situation
because they are losers; that is
no one in their right mind would
offered them their daughers for
marriage. They all preferred to
offer their daughters to
successful real Yuon. As a result,
this caused the losers to become
a Jealous lunatics. Get it? It is
no rocket science here.
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