Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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What Are Your Thoughts About Monk Chat?
The Western tourists were kind of like their standard tourists that they were kind of used to. The Chinese tourists, the student monks noticed them around the temple but they didn't notice them being engaged in Buddhism the way that the West they were used to from the Western tourists. And then the last group was the Christian missionaries whom I didn't realize or know came to monk chat until some of the monks would just sometimes mention it. So I got all of their attitudes and opinions on those different groups. Do you want me to summarize what their ideas were about their groups? Yes, please.
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