4. 300,000 Buddha
images on a Chedi
The Dhammakaya
Chedi is worth over
500 million dollars!
(19,000,000,000 baht)
People donate money
so they can go to
heaven or nirvana.
Some people don’t
like to “buy nirvana”.
12. Colon cleansing
Santi Asoke
followers do a
colon cleansing to
remove toxins and
poisons from their
body
13. vegetarians
Santi Asoke
followers do not eat
meat. They believe
it is wrong to kill an
animal.
14. 4 levels of practice
• Sodaban- keeping the five precepts
• Sakitakhami- eight precepts and reduce 3 kilet
• Anakhami- beating the 3 kilet
• Arahan- full enlightenment
15. Nirvana
• Santi Asoke followers believe nirvana can
be reached in this life
• Nirvana means being calm and peaceful
• Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu believes this too
16. No Buddha statues
Santi Asoke followers
believe that only the
dhamma is important,
not statues and other
things.
17. No holy water
They believe it is a waste of money and cannot
help someone
21. Not easy to become a monk
• In Santi Asoke, a lay person must follow the
precepts before becoming a monk
• Other monks decide if he can ordain or not
22. Bunniyom and bunchaatniyom
Calm and peaceful mind
No jealousy
Technology is not important
Having a lot of money is not important (but
having some is necessary to live)
They sell things for very little profit
23. Pluksek week
• Lay people must live like monks for one week
• They wake up at 3am and hear dhamma talks
all day
