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are they serious? these really were buddhist monks......not ppl dressed as buddhist monks? I would think there has to be more to this story than what was reported.
Alas, my friends, stone-throwing monks are far from unknown! The supporters of the two Karmapas, for example, often get extremely violent with each other.
We may take refuge in the Noble Sangha and must still remember that the sangha-in-samsara will foul up as badly as any other construct.
It was to help humanity that the Buddha founded the Order. He intended it to be a voluntary association of dedicated persons who would devote themselves to the task of making the process of wayfaring through life easier for such among their fellow beings as were weak, helpless and stricken.
It is another matter that the order never quite became what it was meant to be. The Bhikkhus (homeless ones) very soon became Priests, living in temples built like palaces. Today the lazy and ceremonious Church, split into Nikayas based on caste divisions, maintains its place in society, not by tendering to the sick, the poor and the helpless but by placing a Messianic halo above the Buddha-myth, and by chanting faint Pali gathas to the cold, fruitless moon.
J.R. Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's President 1977-1987, A Life of Service 1942
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We may take refuge in the Noble Sangha and must still remember that the sangha-in-samsara will foul up as badly as any other construct.
Buddhist Monks and Politics in Sri Lanka
Far scarier if you hadn't been!
*ducks and cowers*