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Buddhism

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3. I'm a little surprised

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #2)

Thu May 24, 2018, 10:10 AM

May 2018

I studied and attended the Hsi Fang temple in San Diego when I lived in southern CA and you could not meet nicer people.

Yet there was a news story of a near riot about 15 years ago at a Buddhist monastery in South Korea over
ownership of a Rolls Royce after the head monk passed away.

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Thailand arrests senior monks to clean up Buddhism [View all] left-of-center2012 May 2018 OP

Combine money and influence with a lack of oversight and sooner or later The Polack MSgt May 2018 #1

Wow, even the Buddhist's are corrupt? This is so sad. Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #2

I'm a little surprised left-of-center2012 May 2018 #3

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