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Home » News from Thailand » Curtain falls for controversial tiger temple
Curtain falls for controversial tiger temple
The curtain finally seems to fall on the controversial tiger temple in Kanchanaburi. This week, the DNP (Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation) is removing all 137 tigers from Wat Luangta Bua Yannasampanno tiger temple with the help of police, army and local authorities.
This puts an end to the mess with the tigers. Animal rights activists have been fighting this tourist attraction for years. The monks earned about 100 million baht from exploiting the animals. per year with the temple. The tigers are housed in two parks in Ratchaburi.
If the temple does not cooperate, the DNP will ask the judge for permission to enter the premises. The monks who oppose will be brought to justice, says DNP deputy director general Adisorn. He emphasizes that the tigers are state property and that the temple must hand over the animals.
The temple strongly opposes the operation and has asked the Central Administrative Court for a ruling. The monks want the DNP to wait for the judge's ruling. The DNP says it does not want to wait for that because it does not, because the court has not yet said whether it will handle the case.
Source: Bangkok Post
Ever been. Disappointing and embarrassing. At that time I was not aware of the justified criticism. How should I interpret this anyway? As yet another outgrowth of Buddhism? Or are they fake monks? The question is, by the way, whether many of the monks that can be called legal are not simply “fake”.
Far removed from idealized “forest monks” such as Ajarn Mum, much of monasticism is mainly concerned with filling the collection box.
Or they run an amusement park like these animal tormentors.
Formally, a monk should hardly have any earthly possessions and should certainly not be attached to them.
Everyone knows that the division between private and religious destinations in Thailand is quite blurred. Even the monks in Europe. The collection box is often very well filled here. Temples are springing up here almost as quickly as mosques. It is said that relatives of the monks in Thailand can also make a good living from it. Rumors or?
@,
Hehe finally.
Justice at last.
And now to get all that money above water and distribute it to the people who need it most.
Those animals are completely sprayed flat or a handful of pills through the food, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to let people so close to those animals.
They are and remain wild animals.
As we have all read an article about a lion tamer.
And what I find most objectionable is that all this is done under the guise/denominator of Buddha and that 100 million is also distributed among the monks.
Of course they are angry and of course they are against it.
LOUISE
For the sake of convenience, let's not always talk about the negative excesses of Buddhism. This philosophy is for many a wise, peaceful and well-intentioned guideline in life. It is in the nature of man
sometimes ruin it.
True what they say, but that does not mean that we should not bring up the negative things, such as the so-called tiger temple, which they should have called the tourist dollar temple. You see what years of silence can also lead to in other religions, I mention, for example, the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, a lot is spoiled among them, and dressed in orange by them. The excesses have been piling up quite a bit lately, I must say. The 'tiger temple' is an absolutely good example of this, which even those who are in the 'top' of Thai Buddhism do not complain about.
This "temple" has nothing to do with Buddhism, just making money and trading animals. I hear no negative reports from the "real Buddhists" against this, nor against other forms of what is purely Buddhist nonsense.
And what happens to the tigers?
They are killed …… if they castrate things then worse will be prevented and no more exploitation but budget from the government… .. well…. animals are again the victims of humanity… eh “monks” and their greed….
Why do you think those tigers are being killed?
There are zoos galore with an interest in tigers.
They are also important for the breeding program, to prevent inbreeding and extinction.
Read carefully, the animals are not killed, but divided over two parks
Greetings
i came in this temple several times, from 1991
a hand full of monks, no helpers free entrance
every year more staff joined, in the same clothes, photographers
it became 1 big circus
a lot of money has been made, only the tigers' enclosures remained the same
urine stink deer etc. to keep the tigers within their space
the baby tigers knew nothing, tourists with a bottle of milk……..
but when they grow up, primed to make money
sad
hopefully an end to this circus soon, just checking the accounts
the big tiger bosses, sidekicks and photographers,
and then close the doors, only a temple will suffice there.