Buddhist association takes legal action after video shows ‘monks partying'

Syl wrote:I'm not sure what these people are doing wrong tbh, I just read a website detailing the do's and donts that Buddists adhere too.....still don't see the problem with that particular video though.

Raggamuffin wrote:I thought the point was that they're not Buddhists.

Thorin wrote:

Syl wrote:I'm not sure what these people are doing wrong tbh, I just read a website detailing the do's and donts that Buddists adhere too.....still don't see the problem with that particular video though.

I think the reasoning is about posting up about a party, stating Buddhists partying, when they are at a wedding.

As if this portrays them in a bad light.

Hence, yes I am confused also on this

Thorin wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:I thought the point was that they're not Buddhists.

The association admits that they are Buddhists, but its the view to class them as partying on a video

Yep I am confused how this would be bad some how?

In a statement issued over the weekend, the WBA claimed that the guests were actually members of a pyramid scheme called "Wuxingbi," whose members shave their heads.

Syl wrote:

Thorin wrote:


I think the reasoning is about posting up about a party, stating Buddhists partying, when they are at a wedding.

As if this portrays them in a bad light.

Hence, yes I am confused also on this

It was a nuns wedding...that's more confusing to me, I thought nuns were already married to God.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Thorin wrote:


The association admits that they are Buddhists, but its the view to class them as partying on a video

Yep I am confused how this would be bad some how?

In a statement issued over the weekend, the WBA claimed that the guests were actually members of a pyramid scheme called "Wuxingbi," whose members shave their heads.

Thorin wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Does that mean that Wuxingbi are not Buddhists?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Syl wrote:

It was a nuns wedding...that's more confusing to me, I thought nuns were already married to God.

Buddhist Nuns Syl.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Thorin wrote:





Does that mean that Wuxingbi are not Buddhists?

I've been trying to find out more about Wuxingbi, but I haven't had much success.

I'm not sure what it means by "pyramid scheme".

Syl wrote:

Thorin wrote:

Syl wrote:I'm not sure what these people are doing wrong tbh, I just read a website detailing the do's and donts that Buddists adhere too.....still don't see the problem with that particular video though.

I think the reasoning is about posting up about a party, stating Buddhists partying, when they are at a wedding.

As if this portrays them in a bad light.

Hence, yes I am confused also on this

It was a nuns wedding...that's more confusing to me, I thought nuns were already married to God.

eddie wrote:Isn't enjoying yourself innocently the way we are supposed to live our lives? What were they doing wrong?

Eilzel wrote:

eddie wrote:Isn't enjoying yourself innocently the way we are supposed to live our lives? What were they doing wrong?

Well if you're a Buddhist monk in a lot of East Asian branches of Buddhism you really are supposed to forfeit excessive living and 'materialistic' things. Like partying. Partying shows you have an attachment to things which means you can never really attain nirvana or enlightenment or whatever you want to call it. It is hyper hypocritical though, Monks live very well (in Thailand at least, and I didn't see anything to the contrary in China), travel a lot etc. But if they are ever caught enjoying themselves too much, that can be the end of their 'career'. As with many things in Asia 'face' is very important...

veya_victaous wrote:

Syl wrote:

It was a nuns wedding...that's more confusing to me, I thought nuns were already married to God.

Chinese Buddhist nuns are not they don't believe in a god

Chinese Zen Buddhism is one of the more sensible religions, it still has several faults but most are 'cultural dogma' influenced by Confucian Dogma, Confucianism is actually really shitty.