Two days in life are never the same and it is absolutely true in almost each case and this is the reason we should always have hope. Recently life and time changed for a Buddhist monk who never thought of becoming a millionaire overnight. This is true and this happened in Samut Sakhon, Thailand where a Buddhist monk living in a monastery in Thailand won nearly $1, 75,000 lottery jackpots. All thanks to the lucky number revealed to him by a tree as he says.
Phra Prawit Techapalo, 41, of the Cheepakhao Temple in Samut Sakhon, located just outside of Bangkok revealed that he won the first prize in the lottery after a long time habit of purchasing several tickets every month. Though once he revealed this and the news made headlines this morning but along with this he has also raised some controversy with this announcement. As a monk, Techapalo is supposed to refrain from desire and money. However Phra Prawit Techapalo of Cheepakhao Temple in Samut Sakhon said that he bought multiple lottery tickets every month. Phra Prawit who has been a monk for the last 10 years interpreted a lucky number from the textures of a teak tree at his temple and this winning number was 84. He said he chose last of the numbers on his winning ticket and he got this while examining the textures of a teak tree in the monastery grounds.
There has been mixed reaction about Phra Prawit’s good fortune and he has already shared that he plans to use his windfall of money to buy his mother a house, put his kid through school and pay for the funeral of the temple’s abbot. Though lot of people are expressing their views about Phra Prawit’s alleged deviation from the norm as he is a monk. But one also needs to consider the fact that he played a legit lottery and not Thailand’s more popular “underground” kind. His action was nowhere as egregious as the monks from South Korea largest order who were filmed enjoying gambling and drinking session inside their monastery walls.
Not only has this there been a case where Buddhist monk in Louisiana who recently lost $263k of his temple’s money playing blackjacks at $10k a hand at the L’Auberge Casino.
