buddhist sects นิกายศาส นา
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Buddhist Sects นิกายศาส นา
Dhammakaya Sect-started in 1917
Group MeditationThe Dhammakayatemple sometimes has large ordination ceremonies.
People can feel wonderful when they meditate in a very large group.
Do you want to try?
300,000 Buddha images on a Chedi
The DhammakayaChedi is worth over 500 million dollars!
(19,000,000,000 baht)
People donate money so they can go to heaven or nirvana.
Some people don’t like to “buy nirvana”.
The former leader of WatDhammakaya
Luang Pu
The Dhammakaya temple is one hour north of Bangkok
Santi Asoke
Samana Photirak, leader of Santi Asoke
He was a popular entertainer
Farming community
Santi Asoke followers believe people should grow food for themselves
They are also vegetarians
Walking barefoot
Santi Asoke followers always walk around barefoot
No superstition
Santi Asokfollowers don’t believe in magic and superstition
Fasting for 5 days
Colon cleansing
Santi Asokefollowers do a colon cleansing to remove toxins and poisons from their body
vegetarians
Santi Asokefollowers do not eat meat. They believe it is wrong to kill an animal.
4 levels of practice
• Sodaban- keeping the five precepts
• Sakitakhami- eight precepts and reduce 3 kilet
• Anakhami- beating the 3 kilet
• Arahan- full enlightenment
Nirvana
• Santi Asoke followers believe nirvana can be reached in this life
• Nirvana means being calm and peaceful
• Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu believes this too
No Buddha statues
Santi Asoke followers believe that only the dhamma is important, not statues and other things.
No holy waterThey believe it is a waste of money and cannot help someone
recycling
Organic and natural farming
fertilizer
Bodhiraksa has never studied pali
Not easy to become a monk
• In Santi Asoke, a lay person must follow the precepts before becoming a monk
• Other monks decide if he can ordain or not
Bunniyom and bunchaatniyom
Calm and peaceful mind
No jealousy
Technology is not important
Having a lot of money is not important (but having some is necessary to live)
They sell things for very little profit
Pluksek week
• Lay people must live like monks for one week
• They wake up at 3am and hear dhamma talks all day
celibacy