If you go to Burma a neighboring state to India, where an Indian religion Buddhism is the major religion, There is where you find immense respect to the monk, even when the monks are not-vegetarian which is a taboo in Modern Indian Hindu household, where monk smokes another taboo. The reason I say modern India because the sects like Aghori who may be at times eat a dead human body, or Jain Digambar monk who roams naked, where it was never frowned upon and the reason for that was, a monk was always seen as man or woman who has sacrificed his life for spiritual progress and the greater good, and to for go many day-today things, and live through a life which is much more difficult for a normal human then you think. That is why it was said only those who become fanatical in Indic religion becomes a monk. But throughout in the colonization of India both Islamic and European power normally tried to eliminated, co-opted or defame them. The reason was this monk immense respect in th...