Monks In Cambodia

The monk is the disciple that belong to Buddhism, play importantly in Cambodia's society since Khmer ancient period due to his power and he has prestige over Cambodian daily life for behavior, opinion and implement of living also. Nowadays we can see many monks in Cambodia is joining to help developing by teaching in the communities and preaching to educate them by the law of dharma , especially moral by advertising on Radio, television and internet as well. He donates everything to serve the Buddhism, making conservation to protect the Dharma of Buddhism, More ever he takes care of cultivation of mind, Khmer civilization, cling tightly with four kinds of divined states of the mind of king , there are Loving Kindness, Compassion, Sympathy and Equanimity that is respecting of the Buddha's disciple and Buddhist, Obviously in Cambodian civil war, knowledge source and Khmer civilization was destroyed everywhere but except in the pagoda that many priests stayed in, because the Buddhism is the government's religion so the knowledge and civilization has stayed with the priests. After Khmer civil war , there was no school for Cambodian students, at that time Pagoda was very important that Cambodian students could study with monk at the pagoda. Cambodian society and Buddhism connect together to make every Cambodian believe strongly on Buddhism by taking the priests to be represented. Monks respond to lead Buddhist or human to do a good deed or good thing in their life follow Khmer traditional and avoid bad deed.

For nowadays in the power of Buddha monk studied and learned to pray the law of dharma that is the words of Buddha and he studied general knowledge include Literature, Mathematics and Biography as well. All of his activities is charity and help and develop the country follow by strategy of government. After civil war, Cambodia has tried to develop and improve all of sectors, of course, Education sector is reinforced by monks of Buddhism. He helped to teach Cambodian children and adults about moral, charity, generosity and give up the bad deed, especially he take care and protect environment for our people. Obviously he grows the small tree and spray the seed on the our earth. More ever he is the leader of infrastructure's construction as pagoda, Buddhist association, road and bridge also. Anyway, he always give advice and tell the people that all of the human always Born, Old and Die, this is natural. Especially monks generally get invitation to pray and play dharma toward as a moral force and console consciousness of patients to be cured. In fact, monks are the doctor as well because he cure Cambodian poor people and children.

By the way, monk is very important person in Buddhism because of helping and charity from him so Cambodia get improve and development on Economy, social work, health administration and get peace in living that all of the human need it.