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(KIRO TV)		Buddhist monks hospitalized after brawl (cbs11tv.com)		54
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Dr.Fey		2004-06-08 03:34:38 PM

Don't brawl with monks if you can't make your save versus quivering palm...

Thales		2004-06-08 04:08:44 PM

It's only ironic if you've never watched Kung Fu.

Peaceboy		2004-06-08 04:39:47 PM

"The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself!" -- Wanda

upinarms		2004-06-08 05:32:13 PM

If I had any faith in old King Fu movies, it is now lost.

Ordius		2004-06-08 05:32:37 PM

"And she moaned like a wildebeest." "Willllldebeeeest."

/Adam Sandler fan.

mryoop789		2004-06-08 05:33:49 PM

Gasan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."

/koan

office_despot		2004-06-08 05:34:12 PM

Submitter should RTFA: the monks were hurt by politicians attacking them in parliament. It doesn't say the monks were fighting.

TheJoe03		2004-06-08 05:34:39 PM

The monks didn't actually fight, they were just beat up. In Buddhism, a truely enlightened one should take the blows, and not fight back.
/not ironic

feel_the_burn		2004-06-08 05:34:50 PM

were they on fire? because I wouldn't mess with a monk that set himself on fire first.

I'm just sayin'.

finnishrose		2004-06-08 05:35:27 PM

Apparently there is a new movement in Buddhism... they are now adding sports for a means of meditation. The art of Cage Fighting has become a big hit among the monks!

rka		2004-06-08 05:35:56 PM

Obligatory "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting" reference....

Artmerlyn		2004-06-08 05:41:51 PM

Those kicks were fast as lightning...

DGAR		2004-06-08 05:44:26 PM

scuffle. that's all it said. no biggie.

MixMasterMadge		2004-06-08 05:45:34 PM

ALL IS WELL!!!!!

nonoyesno		2004-06-08 05:47:01 PM

its Willer time !

OralB		2004-06-08 05:48:25 PM

Should have warn Wu's armor.

OralB		2004-06-08 05:49:24 PM

worn

diskop		2004-06-08 05:50:04 PM

Not ironic.

Bun dan bai yen da she ni.

Sandelaphon		2004-06-08 05:52:37 PM

did they know kung fu?
was there a spoon?

JaxGator75		2004-06-08 05:52:44 PM

I was doing a GIS for Pei Mei and ran across this smokin-hot pic of Uma instead...

mahakala		2004-06-08 05:53:43 PM

This is how the Sri Lankan Buddhist monks fight
The power of the gas

Stranglehold		2004-06-08 05:54:21 PM

"I wasn't expecting that from a Buddhist!"

Sandelaphon		2004-06-08 05:55:25 PM

there we go.

DrFuzzy		2004-06-08 05:56:58 PM

That is just wrong.
When politics lead to folks beating down monks, the world is in serious trouble.

WTF is the monk doing in politics in the first place, tho?
That's what I wanna know.

RaoulDuke		2004-06-08 05:57:11 PM

the Drunken Master surrenders? NO!! the Drunken Master *never* surrenders... RTFA and you'll see that the fracas was justified. it takes a lot ot piss off a buddhist monk.

djmed		2004-06-08 05:57:30 PM

i've been warning ya'll not to fark with them monks.

they will go all buddha on your ass.

MikeWeath		2004-06-08 05:57:56 PM

You can't follow the middle way unless you get into a fight some of the time.

aarkwilde		2004-06-08 05:58:30 PM

Uma is a hottie. I just forgot all about my disappointment with the monk.

DrFuzzy		2004-06-08 06:00:23 PM

diskop
What does
Bun dan bai yen da she ni mean?

SomethingMoreThanAMachine		2004-06-08 06:02:19 PM

I can understand why this might be news in Sri Lanka, but Dallas?
/Unless, of course, there just happens to be a city in Sri Lanka named Dallas...

dmacaroon		2004-06-08 06:14:03 PM

Probably means 'been dere, done dat'

Krizalid		2004-06-08 06:16:09 PM

DrFuzzy:

"WTF is the monk doing in politics in the first place, tho?
That's what I wanna know."

Beats the hell out of me. As far as I know, the Vinaya (monastic disciplinary code) forbids holding that kind of position. Maybe not. Anyway, the Buddha had numerous opportunities to exercise political power, and he chose not to, so I would expect monks to follow his example.

Then again, this story doesn't seem to be talking about your standard monks. :P

Victoly		2004-06-08 06:20:00 PM

I am the most serene!

moosen		2004-06-08 06:20:03 PM

read
the
article.

this would only qualify as "ironic" if the monks had started or participated in the fight. this just sounds like they we attacked.

rdxdave		2004-06-08 06:23:05 PM

yeah but the buddha chose not too because of the state of Indian society at the time. buddhism does not strictly prohibit politics as it can serve to benefit mankind

Eeargy		2004-06-08 06:25:33 PM

Dasboot		2004-06-08 06:27:25 PM

would like to have seen monk open a can of Shaolin whoopass on the thugs...

/I am Caine

Code_Archeologist		2004-06-08 06:41:34 PM

DrFuzzy Buhddist monks are very different from Christian monks. Some sects of Buhddism encourage their monks not to isolate themselves from the world, but to instead interact with it and challenge it. It is not enough to simply sit in the temple and gaze at one's navel hoping for enlightenment, enlightenment must be sought after and all of life must be made a meditation.

purpleheadedyogurtthrower		2004-06-08 06:52:27 PM

who is Keyzer Soze?..

DragonSun		2004-06-08 07:19:55 PM

What I was trying to say was.. Monks, they talk shiat but they can't back it up.

/Another Adam Sandler Fan

EvilGnome		2004-06-08 07:55:22 PM

goes to show you that everyone's human

art_vandelay		2004-06-08 08:16:22 PM

Reminds me of when I went to buy a newspaper yesterday. I could hear yelling as I came out of the store and since it's not the best area so I thought there might be some kind of fight....turned out to be a buhddist monk on the payphone having a huge argument.

Stabbity		2004-06-08 08:17:58 PM

"goes to show you that everyone's human"

Because they got their asses kicked?

Runningjoke		2004-06-08 08:55:24 PM

Shiva H. Vishnu!

Fracases are ok, they're better than hubbubs but not as good as donnybrooks.

jonathanjo		2004-06-08 08:57:19 PM

rdxdave
yeah but the buddha chose not too because of the state of Indian society at the time. buddhism does not strictly prohibit politics as it can serve to benefit mankind

You're confusing the precepts of Buddhism for regular everyday Buddhists (there are five of them) and the precepts for monks. For example, monks are celibate; Buddha wasn't stupid enough to say that EVERYONE should be celibate.

I'm not sure if monks are allowed to hold elected office; I'd be surprised if they did, but it would depend on the monastic order they belonged to. And Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhism is way out of my area of familiarity.

reno77		2004-06-08 09:38:25 PM

Shaolin Showdown !

chaostheorist		2004-06-08 11:10:01 PM

Victoly: and the most flexible

MadSkillz		2004-06-08 11:56:29 PM

Based on the little bits I know of buddhism, it sounds like this particular sect of buddhism is rather extreme and un-buddhist-like,because from what the article suggests, it seems their sole agenda in parliament is to prevent their religion from being busted b/c of the Tamil Tigers, who are Hindu.

I think a real buddhist wouldn't care how many people were of one religion or another, because they're free to make their own decision, follow their own karma.

LincolnLogolas		2004-06-09 12:56:32 AM

You know, this is just a slap in the face to all the Buddhists who get into any religious flamewar on Fark and say that Buddhists are the only non-violent religious people in the world. Hah!

/Of a faith with quite possibly one of the most violent histories on Earth, and probably the oldest leader.

Gohanmastaflex		2004-06-09 01:10:25 AM

LincolnLogolas: Except for the fact that the Buddhists in this case didn't actually hurt or attack anyone. Nice work.

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