I should have thought shame upon my manhood, as well as my
monkhood, if I had held back my hand from her." He glanced around as he spoke with the half-amused look which he had worn during the whole proceedings.
Since Myanmar is predominantly a Buddhist country, there are a number tourists who are interested to visit the monasteries as well as the monastic colleges in order to delve into the religion and culture as well as to understand the life of the
monkhood.
The army and
monkhood, he continued, "could not be separated."
A few writers did shed light on the country's transient one-party state (Taylor 1987), its enduring military (Callahan 2003; Maung Aung Myoe 1999), the
monkhood (Mendelson 1975), business, cronyism and corruption (Kyaw Yin Hlaing 2001), and ideas of political and moral order (Houtman 1999).
Summary: Surat (Gujarat) [India], May 29 (ANI): Khushi Shah, a 12-year-old girl from Surat, has decided to renounce worldly pleasures and embrace
monkhood here.
Many young monks, he said, seem to be more interested in secular than Buddhist studies and leave
monkhood after graduation.
Although most coronation ceremonies for Thai kings follow Hindu Brahmin traditions, some Buddhist elements were added by the monarch's great-great grandfather King Mongkut, or Rama IV, because he spent 27 years in
monkhood before inheriting the throne, scholars said.
Wael Saad (formerly known as Monk Ash'eyaa) and Raymond Rasmi Mansour (Faltaous al-Makary) were stripped of their
monkhood shortly after the bishop was killedand before it was announced that they were officially charged with murder.
Likewise, the founder of the Ceylon Buddhist Publication Society, Venerable Nyanaponika Mahathera (born Siegmund Feniger), was a German Jew who was ordained into Buddhist
monkhood at Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa.
(In Buddhism,
monkhood is not necessarily a lifetime vocation.
The 38-year-old was expelled from
monkhood in 2013 when details of his lavish lifestyle emerged and provoked outrage as it went against everything his religion stood for.
11 boys, with an exception of 14-year-old Adul Sam-on who is a Christian, entered a nine-day
monkhood as an act of gratitude for their rescue.