New Mandala

New Mandala readers who have been following the case of Ajarn Yanatharo (Jose M. Sanz-Tonnelier) may find a new commentary published by the Buddhist website Mahabodhi interesting.  The full article, written by Ven. J.M. Dharmakara Boda, is available here.

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Under the headline “Entrepreneurs happy with performance of CNS, government”,  the Thai government’s news agency reports:
On the one-year performance evaluation of the CNS and the government, the survey found they won the entrepreneurs’ satisfaction narrowly regarding the supervision of the baht with a score of 5.2 out of 10 points, national reconciliation with 5.5, solving the southern unrest [...]

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The best coverage of the current protests in Burma is unsurprisingly coming from The Irrawaddy team.  Their rolling update of events across the country is available here. 
Tuesday, 18 September, is the day the “The Alliance of All Burmese Buddhist Monks” has specified for commencing the ”patam nikkujjana kamma“ (refusal of alms)  from members of the country’s military government.  There are also [...]

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In the many words that have been written since September 19 2006 there is one particular line of commentary that, quite literally, raises my blood pressure. I continue to be both annoyed and astonished by the view that the problem with Thailand’s political system lies in the population’s lack of electoral ethics. “If only the [...]

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