Saturday, December 20, 2008

The sorry state of Buddhism in Cambodia: A former communist preaches good behavior to monks who are led by another former communist politburo member

Comrade Hun Sen, a former KR soldier, is being blessed by Comrade Tep Vong, a former PRK communist politburo member (Hochimonk) under the gaze of King-Father and Queen-Mother's photos (Photo by: Kem Sovannara)

Bad Buddhists behave: PM

Friday, 19 December 2008
Written by Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post


Hun Sen urges wayward monks to follow Buddha's rules

PRIME Minister Hun Sen on Thursday appealed to the Kingdom's Buddhist clergy to behave, saying monks' misdeeds are causing citizens to lose respect for religion and thereby hastening a decline in religious belief.

"If monks cause social problems, it is very difficult for me," Hun Sen said during the closing ceremony of the 17th monk congress Thursday in Phnom Penh.

"If monks behave disreputably, I will not help. I will run away, and those monks will have no one but themselves to blame when people lose confidence in Buddhist monks," he said.

Hun Sen urged the Sangha - or community of monks - to respect the Vinaya - the rules by which monks must live. He said he had been shocked when he saw Buddhist monks dancing in a recording on one of his children's mobile phones, and mentioned an unidentified temple where the chief monk had collected money from ceremonies to buy himself a car.

However, he said this did not reflect on the overall spiritual health of the nation.

"These are individual monks making problems. Citizens should not consider it an issue of the whole religion, but equally, we must not be careless over the issue," Hun Sen said.

Chea Vannath, an independent social analyst, said that disputes between monks, or between monks and laypeople, were increasing.

"With a growing culture of globalisation and materialism, both monks and officials are seeking their personal happiness and have stopped concentrating on the rules of Buddha," she said.

But others welcomed monks increasingly moving into the secular sphere, with Min Khin, minister of cults and religions, using his speech at the closing ceremony to highlight the contribution some 20,000 monks who voted in the July national election made to the victory of the ruling Cambodian People's Party.

"Monks have played an important role in the development of the nation and in the recent election," Min Khin said.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

fuck ah tep vong and there rest of ccp mother fucker.

Anonymous said...

Ah Hun Xen! You stupid, son of Evil Bitch!

Do not blam on Buddish Monk, you so of Pret! Your mother fucker ah Tep Vong is not a Buddish monk!

The buddish monks are base on education, knowledge of Buddah's ways! you fuckers give each other title and PhD with no education are not anything compare to Buddish! you son of mother fucker Gaot face communist!

Anonymous said...

Many buddhist temples in cambodia are corrupt, period. The monks don't know dharma and behave very inappropriate. All of them believe and even practice magic and fortune telling. Buddha taught against these things.

Anonymous said...

Ah Kvang and ah Tep Vong are the killer !!!!
You are so right KI-Media!!!
Khmer people know ,Who is the murder Tep Vong and who is ah Hund Xen?

Anonymous said...

You people at KI-Media think you're doing Khmer people a good service by "publishing sensitive information about Cambodia," but I never see you post anything about human rights violations committed by white men who come to sexually exploit Khmer women and children. I'm not talking about the occasional rape and child molestation cases that hit the newswire once in a while. I'm talking an everyday affair where Western men live and work in Cambodia to exploit our women. Just drive around and you'll see them everywhere. Human rights violations can happen in many different ways. The activities of Westerners in Cambodia are some of the most serious abuses. You're only good at pitting Khmers against Khmers. This is what the Westerners are good at, divide and conquer. In fact, I'm sure many in the staff of the white-owned Phnom Penh Post love to exploit our women too. You don't care about Khmer culture being disgraced by Westerners, so don't pretend that you love Cambodia, because you obviously don't through your actions. You don't even live here in Cambodia like the rest of us.

Anonymous said...

according to my parents, buddhism in cambodia pure and demand the utmost respect and worship. however, since the KR time, of course, they try to destroy every kind of institutions in cambodia, even buddhism needs help to recover from the KR atrocity. it will start with the sangha leadership to try to bring back the order that buddhist have had before the KR era. like everything else, only time will cure/heal that kind of loss in cambodia. start with the call for discipline and perserverance is a start. that said, though, every sector could use reforms as reforms should not be confined only to a certain institution. throughout time, it is important to understand that things comes and go, and good to adjust to changes in terms of adaption to new ideas/concepts etc... i don't believe that anything is set in stone, meaning can't be changed. throughout the human history, people adapt to changes and adjust to new thinking etc... if we are to survive in this harsh purgatory world. god bless.

Anonymous said...

1:41pM WHAT CAN WE DO? IF AH KWACK'S POLICE AND COURT OF JUSTICE ARE CORRUPTING ANDD NOT DO THE WORK!

Ah Kwack even plame religion where he who suppose to punish who destroy religion!

Ah stupid goverment rhat we fight and try to let stupid one like you to see that your fucking father is fucking stupid and evil!!!!

Anonymous said...

Help save Buddhism in Cambodia; please stop, Ah Scam Rainxy.

Anonymous said...

Let I correct you 3:27AM!

1:41PM! What can we do? Ah Kwack's Police and Court of justice are corrupting! and never do the right thing.

Ah Kwack can only blame the religion where he who suppose to arrest and punish who abuse and destroy the National Religion!

Waht we are doing here is to fight the stupid goverment and to teach the stupid one like you to see that your father ah Hun Xen is a stupid evil person!

Anonymous said...

under cpp governance! bravo never heard in khmer history...buddhist monk raped white woman in the cave of phnom sampeuv...last month!no social conscience in khmer society anymore the law of thejungle prevails...father raped his own daughter! read the news everyday you hear this!

Anonymous said...

maybe hun xen wanna change khmer to Islam!he promoted khmer cham everyday becuse AHYAYA !kissing his ass everyday!

Anonymous said...

That's why we must stop Ah Scam Rainxy.

Anonymous said...

4:16 AM:

Incorrect. We must stop ah thmil Hun Sen.

Hun Sen is the largest of many seeds that sprouts corruption, disobedience, and narrow-mindedness in Cambodia.

This is what happens to Cambodia when you allow a Vietnamese vassal chain-smoking uneducated communist peasant run a country.

Anonymous said...

Look at that stupid Hun Sen believing he is being blessed by that corrupted monk. What does Hun Sen know and care about Buddhism?

Hun Sen, do us a favor and go poke out your other eye!

Anonymous said...

It is so sad to see military police beat up monks.

Anonymous said...

Tep Vong: Sang ott sell!

Anonymous said...

All monks in Cambodia must stay away from politic, or else!

Anonymous said...

Tep Vong is Hanoi parasite.

Anonymous said...

That's okay so long he doesn't get into politic.

Anonymous said...

KI MEDIA,
CAN WE SEND SOME OF THIS BLOG TO HUN SEN AND LET HIM READ SOME OF THIS STUFF SO HE KNOWS THAT HIS GOVERNMENT IS JACKED UP?

Anonymous said...

I just don't understand how these people stand Tep Vong and Hun Sen when they hate them so much. If I hate them like your guys, I will kill them myself. Cambodia is so small and them two can be found easily.

Anonymous said...

cambodia buddhists are controlled by ah rontheas-banh tep vong. that's why it is so corrupt. a 17 year old buddhist monk raped a 38-year old european tourist last month. usually, it the tourists who come to rape khmer children.

Khmer Young said...

It is scam Hun Sen who has destroyed Buddhism in Cambodia. Under Hun Sen's political leadership, main Cambodian institutions such as Monarchy, Buddhism, and Nation have gradually deteriorated under his political maneuver in consolidating monopolistic political power.

Since 1979, Cambodia has not advanced any kind political shift to its difference from Khmer Rouge, it has robustly changed only the explicit killing of Cambodian people by KR to implicit killing of Cambodian people by Hun Sen. But KR himself led the country to destruction in a broad light that we can clearly easily see. In a contradict direction, Hun Sen has led Cambodia to the destructive goal that Cambodian people have hardly seen this subtle destructive strategy.

In case of Buddhism, Hun Sen himself and his administration have perpetuated the policy of ruining Buddhism such as encouraging monks to use magics to earn money and share corruption and bribery with high ranking officers, encouraging monks to back his political activities, encouraging monks to have bodyguards, encouraging no eduction monks to having high Buddhist order positions, and breeding his client monks to inhumiliate any other monks who are dissent to his leadership etc.

And all Cambodian peoples know that Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong is just a secrete communist agent to contaminate Cambodia's Buddhist Institution.

All these are not usual fruition of Hun Sen's political power consolidation in destroying Buddhism. But Hun Sen's recent political rhetoric to blaming Buddhist monks and Buddhist order in Cambodia is just part of his irresponsibility as a state leader as well as his Pig PD full of ignorant mindset. More than this, he is a very stupid Buddhist in Cambodia. He knows nothing about the principles of Buddhism taught by Lord Buddha.

Regarding to Monarchy is the same. All Sihamuni public activities are banned now because his more popularity than Hun Sen. And recent appointment of spam Monarchy members to have positions with national budget is another using of national budget as well as to exploit the Cambodian poor uselessly. All these activities of Hun Sen is in hope to continue exacerbate Monarchy in Cambodia.

Hun Sen scam is just the absolute puppet to foreigner who has come to power for his personal wealth and his cronies in the way that can deserve both destroying Cambodia nation and allowing foreigner (VN) to have total control of Cambodia sovereignty.

Hun Sen scam should volunteerily step down if his brain is not a shrimp brain. His recent criticism on Buddhist monks and Buddhist order in Cambodia is just another evidence of his shrimp brain. So he should not continue to rhetorical his other shrimp brain idea.

Step down is his final option of stopping shrimp brain!

KY

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