泰国僧侣

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Thomas Fuller, 泰国僧侣'与时俱进.'  纽约时报中文网, Dec 20, 2012
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/world/2012/12/20/c20thailand/


, which is translated from

Thomas Fuller, Monks Lose Relevance As Thailand Grows Richer; Meditative life finds itself at odds with a changing society. New York Times, Dec 19, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/1 ... -relevant.html?_r=0

My comment:
(a) Fuller (surname)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_(surname)
(b) Read the first third of the report, until the one-sentence paragraph: "'You can get dharma in department stores, or even over the Internet,' he said."
(c) dharma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma
(Sanskrit: lit. that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe; means "Law" or "Natural Law;"  The idea of dharma as duty or propriety)

達摩 in Taiwan, as in 達摩祖師 (also known as 菩提達摩  Bodhidharma)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma
(He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Ch'an (Sanskrit: Dhyāna, Japanese: Zen) to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch)