Drinking, womanizing 'monks' held by police
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Two men who caused widespread public outrage by cavorting with women and drinking alcohol while posing as monks were arrested at a Beijing temple over the weekend.
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Two bogus monks caught holding two women at a hotel. |
A Buddhist priest, named Xiao Du, alerted police after he saw two men in religious robes taking photographs with two women in the Fayuan Temple on Saturday, while genuine monks were reciting sutras.
Du recognized the pair as bogus monks having seen pictures of them online carrying on with women and swigging alcohol in public, the Legal Evening News reported yesterday.
The pair fled after being spotted and were later found in a toilet changing back into street clothes, the report said.
Quizzed by monks, they could not provide any evidence that they were genuine holy men.
"They refused to answer our questions and couldn't recite any parts of the sutra," said senior monk Ming Xin.
Monks blocked the exit of the toilet until police arrived.
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