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25-10-2013, 09:00 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
In just a day, a man who passed himself off as a Thai monk pocketed $2,000.
He had gone around Singapore selling religious pendants and begging for money from passers-by.
Venerable Chao Khun Rian from the Thai Buddhist Temple in Singapore yesterday used this incident, which happened six years ago, to highlight how lucrative it can be for men passing themselves off as monks.
At least five fake monks have been reported to the Singapore Buddhist Federation in the last two weeks, prompting the federation to call for a press conference yesterday morning.
Singapore Buddhist Federation secretary-general Venerable Seck Kwang Phing said: “These bogus monks and nuns are foreigners. As long as the public does not support them by giving them money, they won’t come (here)."
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?166907-Got-fake-monks-meh-TGIF!!!!&goto=newpost).
In just a day, a man who passed himself off as a Thai monk pocketed $2,000.
He had gone around Singapore selling religious pendants and begging for money from passers-by.
Venerable Chao Khun Rian from the Thai Buddhist Temple in Singapore yesterday used this incident, which happened six years ago, to highlight how lucrative it can be for men passing themselves off as monks.
At least five fake monks have been reported to the Singapore Buddhist Federation in the last two weeks, prompting the federation to call for a press conference yesterday morning.
Singapore Buddhist Federation secretary-general Venerable Seck Kwang Phing said: “These bogus monks and nuns are foreigners. As long as the public does not support them by giving them money, they won’t come (here)."
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?166907-Got-fake-monks-meh-TGIF!!!!&goto=newpost).