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Well-Intentioned but Anger-Fueled! Abbot Beats Monks in Attempt to Teach Them a Lesson for Drug Use.

Well-intentioned but enraged, the abbot severely beat a novice monk in an attempt to teach him a lesson for drug use and drinking kratom at the temple. On September 17, 2015, the mother of a novice monk at a temple in Hat Yai Municipality, Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, filed a complaint. The abbot, who held the rank of Phra Khru, assaulted her 23-year-old son in his second Buddhist Lent at the temple around 9:00 a.m. on May 4th. Following…
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Well-intentioned but enraged, the abbot severely beat a novice monk in an attempt to teach him a lesson for drug use and drinking kratom at the temple. On September 17, 2015, the mother of a novice monk at a temple in Hat Yai Municipality, Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, filed a complaint. The abbot, who held the rank of Phra Khru, assaulted her 23-year-old son in his second Buddhist Lent at the temple around 9:00 a.m. on May 4th. Following…

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แนวหน้าออนไลน์ broke the news in on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
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