PHITSANULOK: Proven are supposed to be locations of peace and goodwill, however a temple in Phitsanulok lately proved to be anything however when a monk who thought a nun had disrespected him responded by beating her.
At 9 am August 21, Maechi Phronchon Chomphukpan, 53, a nun at Wat Ban Khek in Nakhon Thai District, walked into the native district police station with her face swollen and covered in bruises. There she recounted to Duty Officer Lt Thanaphon Mekbut a bizarre story of intra-wat aggression.
Maechi Phronchon, who had lived on the temple for decades, mentioned that the previous afternoon she had been strolling to the toilet behind the temple when she passed by a resident monk, identified solely as “Phra Nom”, who was sleeping in a hammock. Suddenly the cleric shouted at her, demanding to know why she had not graced him with a wai.
“Nuns have to wai monks whenever they pass them,” he exclaimed allegedly in a drunken method.
Maechi Phronchon apologized, saying that she had not seen him. This was not ok for Phra Nom, nonetheless. He launched right into a tirade of insults so extreme that Maechi Phronchon might solely stand cowed, she mentioned.
After his insults had run dry, Phra Nom demanded that Maechi Phronchon go and fetch her bankbook so he could “check that she had not been embezzling temple funds”. Maechi Phronchon refused on the grounds that Phra Nom was only a rank-and-file monk, with no authority to examine her monetary information..