Peace activist Ouyporn Khuankaew tells 'Outlook' why she's embraced Buddhist spirituality in her work to help victims of gender-based violence
How could a man who was a devout Buddhist, who regularly visited temples and was ever ready to give and help out the monks, treat his wife and children so violently?
Peace activist Ouyporn Khuankaew, 45, was talking about her own father.
At the mercy of her father's hot temper, young Ouyporn also often wondered why her kind neighbours who never said no to merit-making activities at temples never came to her rescue. Or why the abbot, who often visited the villagers when they were sick, never visited the wives and children who were beaten up by the man of the house.
It was her painful efforts to answer these questions that drew her to feminism.
"I wanted to understand why my father was so controlling and violent. He had an axe in his bedroom. We never knew when he would wake us up in the middle of the night to threaten us with the axe in his hand. (More)
Source: Bangkok Post
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