"Traditionally, Siamese boys have been educated in Buddhist [monasteries], and more than 77 per cent of the local public schools, and 23 per cent of the government schools, are located in monasteries."
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Encyclopaedia Americana (1952) quoted in Ram Swarup, On Hinduism (2000)
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