ABSTRACT
The fastest growing and most radical group within the Thai Sakgha is the Wat Phra Dhammakaya movement. Their marketing methods are thoroughly twenty-first century and have drawn fire from both the Sakgha and the public as excessively ‘this worldly’, and consequently inappropriate.1 It is not only their soliciting of funds that is in question, their meditative practice and understanding of doctrinal issues, for example nibbana, are also highly controversial.
