#  Western-Educated Monks Inject New Blood Into Thai Buddhism 

 





December 22, 2010

 

 

Author: Peter Janssen

Source: Monsters & Critics

[http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/features/article\_1607259.php/Western-educated-monks-inject-new-blood-into-Thai-Buddhism-Feature](http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/features/article_1607259.php/Western-educated-monks-inject-new-blood-into-Thai-Buddhism-Feature)

Sorayut Chayapanyo, the 32-year-old abbot of the Doi Pha Som forest temple, has found little use for his Stanford University economics degree in the hills of Chiang Mai.



 

 

 



 

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