Siem Reap monks defrocked for drug use

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13 December 2017
SIEM REAP - On the evening of 11 December, following a complaint by neighbors to pagoda elders, two monks aged 17 and 27 were discovered in a rental room where they were suspected of using drugs. This was confirmed after drug tests of both men were revealed to be positive.
Before being taken down to the police station, the two monks were officially defrocked at their pagoda in a ceremony where they give up their robes and lose their status as monks.
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I'm not sure about how to think of a tattoed monk ... :?
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Kayve wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:22 am I'm not sure about how to think of a tattoed monk ... :?
Plenty of older monks have Sak Yant traditional tattoos.
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orange junkie beggars

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John Bingham wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:46 am
Kayve wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:22 am I'm not sure about how to think of a tattoed monk ... :?
Plenty of older monks have Sak Yant traditional tattoos.
And quite a few young gangsters get sent to pagodas by parents, they have tattoos when they enter monkhood
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chorlton wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:54 pm orange junkie beggars

I'd have to be stoned to swear off women and sit around all day chanting.
You could be next.
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that genius wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:39 am
John Bingham wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:46 am
Kayve wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:22 am I'm not sure about how to think of a tattoed monk ... :?
Plenty of older monks have Sak Yant traditional tattoos.
And quite a few young gangsters get sent to pagodas by parents, they have tattoos when they enter monkhood
That was my assumption
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