［新明］四马路 15僧人‘集体化缘‘ ‘包围’公众讨钱惹议

[icebleue]

The worst is those youngsters / Ah Beng asking for rice donation.

Give them rice... lol..

 

[amognoix]

Monk can only beg for food, not money.

ICA all jiak liao bee - let all these fake monks enter.

 

[Pricecheck]

missing 3 or else can form 十八铜人

 

[Mr Totoro 38]

CAll the police lor...

 

[hardindex]

 

[Pearce]

Buddha already saw the future, where the devil told buddha that he will put fake monk into temple and to tarnish his teachings.

 

[buttbERry]

what the

 

[Whimsica]

Lailiaolailiao visa-free monks.

Tiagong last week got visa-free tissue sellers in Chinatown.

Maybe tomorrow will have visa-free rose sellers.

 

[mgx-alander]

Buddha already saw the future, where the devil told buddha that he will put fake monk into temple and to tarnish his teachings.

the first fake monk must be falun gong

 

[kashix]

Monks not supposed to touch money and own things. Some local monks and nuns no qualms accepting any pows given to them voluntarily but maybe can understand when cost of living in Sg high. But when I see them living a better life than me (drive car, go casino, wear lolex), I also shake head and lose any faith in religion.

I even know of local monk who put on weight during the Covid years! Dunno jiak simi ho liao.

I was shopping when I saw a group of monks come buy electronics like laptops, the group of monks some wearing Rolex, some wearing Pateks. This one is what monk?

 

[williewombat615]

Give them rice... lol..

I give them rolled eyes

 

[williewombat615]

I was shopping when I saw a group of monks come buy electronics like laptops, the group of monks some wearing Rolex, some wearing Pateks. This one is what monk?

I dunno… some people in this thread seem to be defend monks who own luxury items as the watch is for time telling so the price is not important.

 

[williewombat615]

As stated by another bro, botak with a robe doesn't mean he is a monk. For your case, his job is provide prayer service. He is a monk or not I dunno, maybe you can ask him to show you his 度牒, this is a cert to prove where n when he became monk. Then you can report him to the temple saying you saw him going to casino, his senior monk should know what to do.

Not I saw, so I can’t be the one reporting.

 

[MrAwesomeX]

The worst is those youngsters / Ah Beng asking for rice donation.

Kena scam syndicate recruitment .

 

[Shion]

why they go guanyin temple?

why the monks dun go to the buddhist temple to ask?


i is not scared bad karma,
i will confront the monk on their purpose huan....
chest front walk upright...

guanyin temple high traffic, easier to get money

 

[Shion]

The words in bold… my family engaged this monk’s services for funeral prayers. One of my relatives said he ever saw the monk going to casino. Would you classify the monk as fake when he is providing prayer services?

On the point on not allowed to handle money… my mum has been giving red packets to monks at a certain temple during CNY for years. None of them ever rejected the ang pows.

Giving ang pows willingly to the monks at the temple is ok. It's a way of accumulating merits. The monks did not ask for it, we give willingly. Sometimes I give ang bao to monks at the temple, they did not reject but they put the ang baos in the donation box. It's different from 化缘 when the monks ask for offerings. When the monks 化缘, we can only offer food.

Practicing Buddhists will only engage true monks because we know who are the true monks.

hearsay those monks at funeral prayer service mostly not real monks ? no idea.

 

[menthol28]

I was shopping when I saw a group of monks come buy electronics like laptops, the group of monks some wearing Rolex, some wearing Pateks. This one is what monk?

Monks who still are obsessed with material wealth and many worldly desires

 

[KnockoutNed]

hearsay those monks at funeral prayer service mostly not real monks ? no idea.

kinda grey area and also depends on how one will define

they are attached to a funeral service provider and not a monastery

but they still practicing the religion and able to provide the service


Read HWZ Forum Rules!

 

[TUV2008]

Monk can only beg for food, not money.

ICA all jiak liao bee - let all these fake monks enter.

ICA job does not involve religion. They only make sure visitor has the validate passport and not carry drug.

If they need to validate monk then how about many other religion? Like that they cannot manage.

 

[TUV2008]

kinda grey area and also depends on how one will define

they are attached to a funeral service provider and not a monastery

but they still practicing the religion and able to provide the service


Read HWZ Forum Rules!

What you said is correct, we cannot generalize that if monk not attach with any monastery are not real . They could be prefer to be staying their own place but still practice and follow the rule as monk.