[佛教中的貪腐] Corruption in Contemporary Buddhism

stories you tend to get about corruption in
been in the game for a few years and then story might be. off the bat; one of my professors in university was brutally honest about corruption in the was sort of the most respected patriarch at who was open to the possibility of having who spoke Japanese fluently, and that was student myself hearing this story, but, ah... master fell asleep at this august and revered went to sleep like clockwork at the same time their full robes) would get up and climb over the temple) and would go to the nearest whorehouse. of the monks would ever have sex when they ah, due to poverty, or what the factors were, get drunk and smoke marijuana, and quite a added on to that (that I'm leaving out), but uh, "What was the attitude of the monk in try to discipline them?" to teach me something. up the next day and perform the rituals with as they could sit in the correct position in charge never had any complaints, uh, he the meditation hall, and he'd be able to see (who was more hung-over than the rest) and been staying up so late, partying so hard, of sitting zen (where, y'know they sit in different from the Theravada posture), every sitting upright, and fall forward with a klonk, from exhaustion. former monks and current monks expressed to the honesty with which I was engaged in what um... real I was able to make contact with on the or academic ones or what-have-you. I knew a former monk in Laos, and when I knew of a very low rank, but, obviously, in a communist by the government as bureaucrats of one kind the further left you go on the political spectrum. a young man (I don't know if he was a teenager to go from Laos to Thailand, and to study government-ranked list (which does exist in the monarchy are quite involved in how religion one, official "greatest temple" for Northern of monastic university. would have been back in the more high, Soviet the two countries were closer to war at any as well as religiously significant. monk from Laos, when he got there expecting what he got was an education in just how corrupt came up (I think it was Thai New Year, it gets out in the streets and gets drunk and the monks in his temple (so these were the elite, going to this elite temple), they all the same thing we do when we want to go out uh, sort of loose-fitting hip-hop clothing, shaved heads, or the shaved heads wouldn't partied. monks who were there on scholarship from Laos terrified of this, and they tried to be more raising the question of "How can you respect what that tradition is?" baseball hat and you go out and party with institution you're in because you're not willing that are going on there? who were attached to what many people would in Bangkok, again, with formal connections in English. in his assessment --well, I should say, one (he was a westerner who was living there as too many details), he had risen to the absolute working in the offices of monks very directly --at the absolute highest level. man for the pope in Catholicism. he had skills that were useful to the institution. and, wow, I mean, both the financial corruption doing was motivated by money, very, very directly and the absence of any other motive, of any any real religious practice of any kind (he and that guy spoke to me for many hours, on else that was outstanding to me in his account Buddhism was that the monks who were not corrupt the organized majority of the monks who were politics and religion, where people will say want to be corrupt, "Oh, why do you have to context, you're in a situation of conflict you, even if you think you can have an aloof not going to, uh... you're not going to be who will be all-too-happy to make a martyr