Disciples of beheaded monk on suicide watch after Buddhist crusaders smash their ‘false idol’

The followers of a monastery abbot were on suicide watch today after Buddhist hardliners and soldiers took turns demolishing the headless statue next to which he beheaded himself.

About 100 people were present yesterday to witness the group of Buddhists who came from out of town and spent over three hours swinging large axes to destroy their statue, which depicted a decapitated, heavenly indra figure offering up his severed head in outstretched arms. 

The statue did not seem to represent anything from the generally accepted Hindu or Buddhist cosmos. But it was there that some of them had helped build the DIY guillotine Abbot Dhammakorn Wangphrecha used to behead himself last week in the belief he would attain enlightenment.

The demolition began with ritual prayers and a celebrity brahman declaring that the statue did not depict a god but a demon, and therefore did…