A Buddhist Monk Has Been Arrested For Sexually Assaulting His Students In Segamat

A 54-year-old Buddhist monk from Segamat, Johor, was arrested earlier today, 16 January, after two of his students lodged police reports against him for sexual assault

Sin Chew Daily reported that two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, lodged police reports against him on 14 January.

They were students of the man at a Buddhist school located in Segamat. 

The monk reportedly asked the teenagers to stay back after classes at the Buddhist school, and performed oral sex on them.

A Buddhist Monk Has Been Arrested For Sexually Assaulting His Students In Segamat

A Buddhist Monk Was Arrested for Having Chemsex Parties in His Temple - VICE

A Buddhist monk has been arrested after he was allegedly caught smoking meth and having gay sex parties in his temple. Master Kai Hung was the secretary general of the Chinese Young Buddhist Association until a few weeks ago, when police raided the 29-year-old’s room at Chongfo Temple in Taiwan.

What they found was 19 grams of amphetamines, smoking pipes, condoms, anal relaxants, erection medication, and a bottle of “holy water” filled with lube. They also discovered two USB drives that contained over 200 gigabytes of porn, including "male-on-male sex videos" that were made by and starring Kai himself, the Liberty Times reports.

The spicy footage was published by Taiwanese news outlet Mirror Media last week, and appears to show the monk smoking meth, sweating profusely, and just generally rolling around on a bed with other men. It’s not clear where or when the video was filmed, but the original report quotes a source as saying that Kai was a long-time drug user who held “sex parties” with other Buddhists at Tongshan Temple, where he was previously based.

A Buddhist Monk Was Arrested for Having Chemsex Parties in His Temple - VICE

Bihar: Buddhist monk held for alleged sexual abuse of 15 boys | The Indian Express

A Buddhist monk on Thursday was taken into custody at the international pilgrim town Bodh Gaya near Gaya district for alleged sexual abuse of 15 children from Assam who were studying at a school-cum-meditation centre run by him, police said.
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The monk ran an institution called “Prasanna Jyoti Buddhist School and Meditation Centre” at Mastipur village in Bodh Gaya where the 15 children – all hailing from Karbi Anglong district in Assam – were studying.

Bihar: Buddhist monk held for alleged sexual abuse of 15 boys | The Indian Express

Nine-year-old boy dies after being battered by Buddhist monk - www.newsnation.in

A nine-year-old Buddhist novice has died after a beating by a Thai monk who allegedly battered him with a stick and slammed his head against a pillar, officials said on Friday.

Monk Suphachai Suthiyano, 64, flew into a rage during a prayer session last weekend when the young disciple disrupted the ceremony with his “playful” behaviour.

The monk allegedly assaulted Wattanapol Sisawad with a bamboo stick at the temple in Kanchanaburi, two hours west of Bangkok, striking him on his back several times before bashing his head into a pillar.

The child fell into a coma and passed away yesterday, a hospital worker at Kanchanaburi provincial hospital told AFP today, requesting anonymity.

Nine-year-old boy dies after being battered by Buddhist monk - www.newsnation.in

When Buddhism Goes Bad: How a Yoga and Meditation Retreat Turned Cult-Like and Deadly | Alternet

When the public learned of 38-year-old Ian Thorson’s death in a cave in the Arizona desert three years ago, the details behind the tragedy were both jarring and ominously familiar. Thorson had belonged to a religious splinter group, headed by a charismatic leader, that had holed up in a remote, isolated enclave. There were rumors of sexual shenanigans, weapons and highly secretive practices. In that respect, it was an old story.

This wasn’t even the first time an insular, renegade sect had chosen that particular apocalyptic landscape for its refuge. In the early 1980s, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department got into a shootout with a fringe Christian group living in a compound called Miracle Valley. Three people died.

What startled many about Thorson’s fate, however, was that this time the group was not Christian but (ostensibly at least) Tibetan Buddhist. The leader of the sect, a former diamond merchant named Michael Roach, continued to wear the robes of a monk despite growing objections from traditional Tibetan Buddhists, who were pretty sure he’d departed from accepted doctrine and broken some of his monastic vows, particularly the vow of chastity. Even so, the idea of a Buddhist retreat turned cult-like and deadly is a far cry from the popular American view of Buddhists as wise, modest and gentle souls who warn us against attachment to the fleeting things of this world

When Buddhism Goes Bad: How a Yoga and Meditation Retreat Turned Cult-Like and Deadly | Alternet

The Three Poisons of Human Suffering | The Big Slice

,,,The Buddha taught that the three poisons cause a great deal of suffering.  They are: Greed, Anger and Ignorance.  His goal was to get people to strive for a life of: Generosity, Compassion and Wisdom.  If we could reach that goal, we could eliminate a lot of human suffering, including our own.

,,,First, greed comes from a desire to have more than we need.  It’s a desire that cannot be satisfied with its object; for instance, money.  When we give in to greed, the more we have, the more we want.  Greed can never be satisfied.  It can only be challenged with self awareness.  We must determine how much we need and when we have enough, admit it.  Greed is a distraction that always puts happiness out of our reach.  It only produces suffering.

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Anger is the next poison.  It’s not anger that causes suffering; it’s the actions that we take when we don’t know how to handle our anger.  Anger is natural.  Harming others is unnatural and causes suffering for the victim and the perpetrator.

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Ignorance is the third poison.  The most vivid example today is the ignorance that prevails in certain countries that are struggling to keep modernity at bay with archaic forms of obsolete religious belief systems.  I won’t argue that there certainly are some aspects of post modernity that I wish we didn’t have to tolerate.  But institutionalized ignorance is not the answer.  This kind of ignorance demands that terrible things happen to innocent victims.


The Three Poisons of Human Suffering | The Big Slice