Buddhist monk in Vietnam supposedly burning himself to death over some perceived injustice.
Posted on 05/13/2012 12:01:06 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Six leaders from South Korea's biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking.
The scandal erupted just days before Koreans observe a national holiday to celebrate the birth of Buddha, the holiest day of the religion's calendar.
The head of the Jogye order, which has some 10 million followers, or about a fifth of the population, made a public apology on Friday, vowing "self-repentance".
South Korean TV networks aired shots of monks playing poker, some smoking and drinking, after gathering at a luxury lakeside hotel in late April for a fellow monk's memorial service.
"The stakes for 13 hours of gambling were more than 1 billion won ($875,300)," Seongho, a senior monk who uses one name, told Reuters on Friday.
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Were they drinking Dos Equis?
It’s a won-won situation.
The only monk I worship is Thelonious.
You’ve got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Well, the only monk that *I* have any respect for now is Art, who had a great career with the Redskins. For the record, any religion whose women are skinheads like Sinead O’Connor, and whose “leader” is dead and buried is of no interest to me. Bob
Those were serious stakes! What were they playing? Texas Hold’em?
Actually.....it only looks like self-immolation.....he was smoking and drinking 180 proof at the same time...he got a little sloppy with the shots.
But seriously folks...if it’s pagan, it’s pagan...what do you expect.
It’s always night, or we wouldn’t need light. - Thelonious Monk [1917-82]
“The stakes for 13 hours of gambling were more than 1 billion won ($875,300),”
Where do monks get that kind of moolah to squander? They must be Democrats. I would not be shocked if the K Gov’t supports them in some way
This sounds just like a democratic fundraiser.
“Kill the Buddha”.
“So?”
h/t Andrew Breitbart, America misses you.
Those monks were monkeying around.
At least they weren’t buggering little boys and spending huge sums of money to keep it all hushed up, like that other soul-harvesting franchise.
Just more proof that the human condition is the human condition. Any person (of “the cloth” or not) who appears to live IAW God’s Laws is just better at maintaining secrets than the rest.
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