Clergy gone bad

[arcticpenguin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20030620/od_nm/crime_thailand_monk_dc

OK, I'm not completely sure that monks are considered 'clergy', but it's not just for Catholics anymore.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Buddhist monk shot dead this week had amassed a $5 million fortune in 12 bank accounts from years of extortion and was on a government blacklist of influential "mafia" figures, police said on Friday.

Investigators said the monk, Phra Kru Nanthapiwat, murdered execution-style by an unidentified assailant on Tuesday, had been earning as much as one million baht ($24,030) a week by embezzling temple funds and running illegal motorcycle taxi gangs.

The monk, who had been at the temple on the outskirts of Bangkok for 36 years, also promoted himself as a spiritual medium who could dispel bad luck in exchange for money, police said.

[Dancing David]

You gotta keep them in the refridgerator or they spoil, ... wow and the mafia just isn't for the Vatican anymore

[Barkhorn1x]

The monk, who had been at the temple on the outskirts of Bangkok for 36 years, also promoted himself as a spiritual medium who could dispel bad luck in exchange for money, police said.

I'll bet that if you didn't give him $$ you would have some bad luck!

Barkhorn.

[Pahansiri]

Sad even in my Buddhist belief can be found people who do dumb things. In Buddhism cravings are the very base of the Buddhist teachings it is cravings that cause suffering, he will find this well now.

Greed and dumb things enter all things. The other thing as to “luck” Buddhism does not believe in luck all things are the result of causes and conditions, all things there is no such thing as luck but people will seek from greed to play upon and profit from the fears and sufferings of others, even in Buddhism..

He broke many precepts monks live by perhaps the most profound here is never to place yourself before any other being.



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