Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
A monk won 18 million baht in the recent lottery and decided to donate the winnings. 67 year old MontriSamajjo, known as Monk Piak, says he didn’t buy the tickets with the hopes of winning. He bought them because a lottery ticket seller came by temple asking for help.
The monk gave 1 million baht to each of his 3 children. He donated a portion of the winnings to the temple as well as to those who needed money. He saved the rest to help people who may need it in the future.
Many Thais are superstitious when it comes to buying lottery tickets. Random occurrences in life, or even dreams, can led people into buying lottery tickets with specific numbers. Thai media reported that the monk had a strange dream where he was touching an old coffin.
The monk says a lottery ticket seller came by the WatThinnakornNimit in Nonthaburi, just outside Bangkok, and said he needed help. He couldn’t sell all of the tickets and needed money. The monk borrowed some money from another monk at the temple and spent 1,500 baht on lottery tickets. The tickets had the 2-digit suffix numbers 04, 40, 47, 74 and 44. When the numbers were announced, the monk checked the numbers on his tickets and saw that 3 tickets won 6 million baht each.
A monk with winning lottery numbers was forced to flee his temple in northwest metro Bangkok after people would not stop coming to ask for money.
Assistant abbot SitthiWoradit of WatThinnakornNimit said yesterday that the monk, AjahnMontriSamujjo, was no longer at the Nonthaburi temple days after he won a THB18 million lottery prize, prompting people to flock there, disturbing the clergy every night and making it hard for anyone to sleep. He said that people came from all over seeking the monk’s charity. The assistant said the 67-year-old monk had asked for permission to stay at an undisclosed temple in another province. They agreed.
“He went somewhere else. Please don’t come here again,” monk SitthiWoradit said to people in a message delivered to reporters. “It’s disturbing the monks and causing chaos.” Unaddressed was the fact that it’s actually forbidden for monks to buy lottery tickets at all.
SOURCE: Thai Residents
