Online Lecture: Chao Awat - The Incongruity in Sangha Governance
30 August 2021, by AAI Webmaster

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The Hamburg Society for Thai Studies and the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies in cooperation with the Department for Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia invite you to an online lecture on Monday, August 30, 2021, 14:00 to 16:00 CEST.
The chao awat or abbot of a Thai Buddhist monastery plays an important role in Buddhist Thai culture. They act as leaders, teachers, masters of monastic monks and novices, villagers, and laypeople nearby. Entitled to control monastic people and manage property for the monastery’s business, the abbot is the representative of the monastery and recognized as a juristic person by the law.
This lecture will discuss how the head of a Thai Buddhist monastery is problematic in the balance of the Sangha governance designed by the Buddha, and possibilities for solutions will be discussed.
The lecture will be held by Dr. Sompornnuch Tansrisook who is Assistant Professor of Pali-Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies in the South Asian Languages Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Chulalongkorn University.
The lecture will be held in English and can be attended via Zoom. For the link and more information, kindly refer to our flyer (PDF).
We would like to thank the Hamburg Society for Thai Studies and the Numara Center for Buddhist Studies for the organization and cooperation.