Venerable Sritantra,
I heard in Thai: the Buddha's Samnak.
Perhaps where the Buddha dwelt.
It may not be just secular.
With respect,
Nina.
op 02-04-2006 11:31 schreef sritantra op sritantra@...:

> To shepherd my question in another direction, may I assume the Thai
> samnak to be a 'purely secular' term? That is, minus any qualifier -
> e.g. song, patibat, yokha, et al - does samnak ('centre, union') aver to
> anything more than a social organization, association, society, club,
> institute, etc? Is samnak ever a stand-alone word?