Buddhist+practice

Buddhist Practice

(A monk of Thaildnd and a temple of Thailand)

 The teacher has a class at the temple and he teaches students about Budda beliefs and magic word (called akom in this story). Students are really respectful their teachers and teachers used ancestor monks as a good example to teach. In this story, the teacher Pak really like Krai T'ong who is the second main character in this story because he is the most respectful student ever. From this, reader can know that the relationship between teacher and student is really importand, and it is important to be respectful to behave to teachers for students.

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According to these websites, the Thai monks are really respectful others because of religion. If they do good thing in real life, the good thing will return to them after they died. Moreover, non-monk people also respect monks. Furthermore, Thai monks play in the Thai educational system as a teacher. The teacker has a class in temple so that students such as young monks study in the temple. In addition, the teacher teaches about the monks who lived in the past and moral subject. In the way to show Thai monks’ kindness, they  adapt the “dek-wat” (orphans), give them food, home, and education. On the other hand, Thai people do Tak-baut in the morning, every “one-prah” the Thais go to the temple, and let the monks name their child to respect for monks.

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