As Satan's Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction consumes all religions I was wondering why there were no Buddhist examples of the False Allegations Industry yet. Oh, but there are...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1491250...millions-pounds.html

What puzzles me is that the monks must have significant amounts of money to be blackmailed potentially for £179k...Where do they get their money from...?

As a regular visitor to Thailand over the decades I met heaps of "temporary" Thai Buddhist monks..often Thais who can be civilians or businessmen who go into a retreat for perhaps a few months and then go back to civilian life.

Apart from sort of begging in the streets, although it's very normal practice for other Thais to offer food to Monks they encounter, the Royal Family and government do give the established Monestarys funds. Buddhism is after all the official religion in a way that the Catholics are in Italy.

There have been quite a few sex scandals involving monks though but this an odd one.

hedda wrote:


Apart from sort of begging in the streets, although it's very normal practice for other Thais to offer food to Monks they encounter, the Royal Family and government do give the established Monestarys funds. Buddhism is after all the official religion in a way that the Catholics are in Italy.

There have been quite a few sex scandals involving monks though but this an odd one.

Interesting and makes sense. I am just a little surprised that individual monks have access to such funds, rather than the institution.

Ah well, sex and money; it's always the problem...