“Many such people came to my restaurant to solicit donations. [Reimer’s] campaign can affect those real [Mahayana] monks who solicit donations for commuting,” Lee says. “She shouldn’t use southern Buddhism’s precepts to attack northern Buddhist practices. As long as he wears the cassock, we have to show respect even though he is an impostor.”(Southern and northern Buddhist scriptures also diverge over the eating of meat. Anyone holding a monk’s bowl to solicit money on the streets is fake, as the bowl is only for food in Buddhism.

Source: The Star May 29, 2018 05:37 UTC