Mass Pansukula Initiation Rites in Thailand Address Economic Crisis?

This from Al-Jazeera, covering the latest religious commodity craze out of Thailand: mass-pansukula initiation-style rites. I didn’t hear the word Pansukula here, and maybe it’s called something else, but the ritual is quite clearly a pansukula initiation rite of the sort discussed by François Bizot in his book Le don de-soi-même (1981), done in a modern style and mass produced.

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