Monks gone wild: Buddhist monk caught making porn videos, throwing sex parties, taking drugs in western Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/11/21
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — News has surfaced of a Buddhist monk in western Taiwan
Master Kaihung. (Image from buddhistcompassion.org)
caught breaking every monastic vow in the book, including allegedly taking drugs, filming pornographic videos, and throwing sex parties.
Police in Miaoli County yesterday (Nov. 20) arrested a 29-year-old Buddhist monk identified as Master Kaihung (開泓法師), who’s birth name was Hsieh Jen-hao (謝仁豪), for possessing illegal drugs, among other suspected crimes. The list of alleged impious acts committed by the monk has been described by Liberty Times as one of the biggest scandals within Taiwan’s Buddhist community in many years.
When Miaoli police arrived at the Chongfo Temple (崇佛寺) yesterday with a search warrant, they were blocked from entering by four monks, who shouted to Kaihung to hide in another room. Kaihung then locked himself inside the room, but it was not long before a man surnamed Chen (陳) unlocked the door.
Once police entered the room, they first encountered a startled-looking Kaihung playing with a smart phone. Inside his wardrobe they found 19 grams of amphetamines, pipes, erection medication, anal relaxants, ultra thin condoms, and a container of Tapeijou holy water (大悲咒水) filled with sexual lubricant, reported Liberty Times. [FULL STORY]
