Temporary Ordination’s Social Role

Monk’s Training: Part 2 PARTS OF A WHOLE

The community at Wat Pah Pong consisted of monks, novices, postulants and maechees (white-robed nuns). The majority of the novices were teenage boys, ineligible from taking full monks’ Ordination until the age of twenty. As for the monks, they could be divided into three groups: monks of regular standing, visiting monks and temporary monks.

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