Online Lecture: Chao Awat - The Incongruity in Sangha Governance

30 August 2021

Dr. Sompornnuch Tansrisook, Assistant Professor of Pali-Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies in the South Asian Languages Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Chulalongkorn University

30. August, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr CEST

The Hamburg Society for Thai Studies and the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies in cooperation with the Department for Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia invited you to an online lecture on Monday, August 30, 2021, 14:00 to 16:00 CEST.

The chao awat or abbot of a Thai Buddhist monastery plays an important role in Buddhist Thai culture. They act as leaders, teachers, masters of monastic monks and novices, villagers, and laypeople nearby. Entitled to control monastic people and manage property for the monastery’s business, the abbot is the representative of the monastery and recognized as a juristic person by the law.
This lecture will discuss how the head of a Thai Buddhist monastery is problematic in the balance of the Sangha governance designed by the Buddha, and possibilities for solutions will be discussed.

The lecture was held by Dr. Sompornnuch Tansrisook who is Assistant Professor of Pali-Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies in the South Asian Languages Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Chulalongkorn University.

Organizers: Hamburger Gesellschaft für Thaiistik e.V. und das Numata Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arbeitsbereich Thaiistik der Abteilung Sprachen und Kulturen Südostasiens des AAI

For more information, kindly refer to our flyer (PDF).