re: "Battered young novice dies" (BP, August 24)
Dear editor,
Perhaps some investigative reporting into abuses of young male novices in Thailand's Buddhist temples is long overdue. They parallel far too closely for comfort the traditional set ups and undeserved respect too long accorded Catholic institutions in the West.
And like those Christian orders, Thai Buddhist institutions show as much interest in cleaning up their act as they do in living by the actual teachings of their claimed founder.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on August 26, 2018, under the title "Practice what you preach" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1528618/high-quality-low-competition
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