Perumal Friday, 15 May 2015 09:44 AM

What is the exclusive objective of a Buddhist monk? To follow the eightfold Aryan Path and realise Nibbana or to increase his knowledge of worldly things and get occupied in high income vocations?

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Arian Friday, 15 May 2015 10:16 AM

When you adorn a robe the monk takes an oath that he enters monkhood to rid himself of the sufferings.Monks therefore need not go to universities but only to pirivenas to study the dhamma. Legislation must be brought to disallow any monk to enter universities. Their place is to study in the pirivenas and spread the dhamma to the world and not to get degrees and to be employed in various fields.The way the present day monks who clamour to enter universities are a disgrace to the Buddhist religion the way they behave. It is they who should admonish the young monks and show them the correct path.

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OMG Friday, 15 May 2015 07:33 PM

And these people are supposed to guide the community to nibbana.

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kondaya77 Friday, 15 May 2015 09:26 PM

Look at the monk ,wearing a beard and a mustache! All these monks should stay in a temple or disrobe..

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