Drunk Bangkok monks defrocked over temple party shack

Photo: Khlong Luang District Public Relations
Photo: Khlong Luang District Public Relations

Seven misbehaving monks were busted by the authorities last night in their makeshift drinking den.

Instead of heading back to the temple to share the Buddha’s wisdom, the seven monks are accused of seeking enlightenment at the bottom of beer and liquor bottles in four huts erected near their Pathum Thani temple, Wat Panyanantaram.

Four drunk monks found sleeping in their trash-strewn drinking hangout Tuesday afternoon will be defrocked. Beer and booze bottles littered the site.

One of the monks, Soravuth, admitted that the huts had long been a place for the holy men to drink to their hearts’ content.

Another, Manoon, had gone viral in late January for doing his morning alms rounds in a car. He admitted that he would sometimes use a taxi to do the rounds.

All seven monks were taken before assistant abbot Mahasompong Kanttamamo in the evening, where he defrocked the four found intoxicated. The other three will keep their robes but will be reassigned to another temple.

Long a place for spiritual escape, the huts were ordered demolished by Khlong Luang district chief Nitichai Wiriyanon.



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