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Buddhism with Open Eyes: Belief and Practice of Santi Asoke
By Marja-Leena Heikkilä-Horn
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238 pages
The reasons for banning the Asoke group and using legislation to outlaw it have more to do with Thai politics than with Buddhist concerns.
An ethnography of the controversial group of vegetarian monks and nuns founded by Bhikkhu Bodhiraksa in Thailand in 1975 along with a few words on the reasons behind their persecution in the late ‘80s.