International Buddhist groups slam NRC panel
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Several groups of Buddhists and monks have hit out at the National Reform Council's (NRC) committee on the protection of Buddhism.
The Network of Northeastern Exemplary Buddhist Youths, the Network of Buddhists in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Islands, and a centre promoting morality, ethics and the security of the nation, the Buddhist faith and the monarchy yesterday demanded that the NRC committee be scrapped.
“Or else, we will stage a rally,” they said via a joint statement.
At the same time, the Assembly of Thai Monks in the United States released a statement to condemn the NRC committee and Or Noi Temple’s abbot, Phra Buddha Isara.
They demanded that the NRC committee be abolished and that Paiboon Nititawan, the chair of the committee, as well as Phra Buddha Isara stop offending the Sangha Supreme Council (SSC) and other entities carrying out the duty of the Supreme Patriarch.
Both Paiboon and Phra Buddha Isara have publicly questioned the SSC for allowing Phra Dhammchayo to stay on as a monk. Both believe Phra Dhammchayo should have already been automatically defrocked in line with a statement of the late Supreme Patriarch.
