Interview With The Former Phra Peter Pannapadipo

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Here's a fairly recent interview with the guy who wrote Phra Farang about aspects of Thai Buddhism:

Part 1

Part 2

Here is his charity, The SET Foundation.

Excerpt:

"Sometimes the monks you see standing around at 7-Elevens or wherever and asking for food or money are not actually monks at all. They are ‘false monks’ and the Sangha is very aware of the problem. It has its own investigator monks who go out with police looking for them and the police immediately arrest them, though they are not too harsh on them."