A shame for the good monks which i'm sure there's plenty
Anyone can put on an orange robe and shave their head. BUT ... that don't make them a monk. Like these two men disguised as monks, going round asking for donations at the same time stealing this ladys iphone, she has put up a 5,000 bht reward for information leading to the capture of these two guys. She left them alone for a while in her shop only to return to find they had dissapeared along with her phone. reports
news.sanook.com.Whether they were real monks or not, they have commited the parajika offence, and hence no longer accepted as a monk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patimokkha
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