"When such behaviour happens repeatedly—particularly among senior monk teachers, who frankly should know and behave better—a layperson is permitted to make a formal “proclamation of no confidence” in a monk who behaves in this way, whoever that monk may be." Personal Experience: Insults by Monastics During my time as a Buddhist follower, scholar and practitioner,… Continue reading CRUEL MONKS (II): Monastics slandering, insulting, harming or trying divide laywomen in their communities and what the Buddha taught about repairing it