#法华堂社令: The monthly salary is tens of thousands and weekends are off#​#Why do foreign monks like to recite sutras#​Today, Fahua Temple in Huzhou, Zhejiang announced an announcement for social recruitment staff, and the salary offered is still very good 8,000 -10,000, no overtime

This announcement attracted a lot of media attention as soon as it came out. Many netizens also said that the treatment in the temple is better than outside.

Some netizens also believe that temples are quiet places for people with Buddhist beliefs to worship Buddha and should not be mixed with commercial things, which will change the original intention.

Buddha's quiet place will not be disturbed except for daily prayers, clarification of doubts and worship, and outsiders can come and go at will.

Moreover, many affairs in the temple are handled by the monks novices and the abbots.

cleans the temple, performs daily housekeeping, provides three vegetarian meals a day, provides guidance and answers to questions for worshipers, etc. No outsiders are allowed to interfere.

Even if the size of the temple increases and the number of affairs increases, it still has internal arrangements and does not allow outsiders. After all, its nature determines that it cannot be compared with outside restaurants and hotels.

I don’t know since when, the temple has become a tourist attraction, and many commercial things have been added. The monks themselves no longer contribute to the housekeeping, clean the temple, or knock wooden fish. Instead, they go out of the temple to pray for alms among the people, drinking wine, singing, and playing with their mobile phones and shooting videos. Some even have earthly connections.

Even so, there is still an endless stream of people going to the temple. The monks all went down the mountain, and the people all entered the temple. There was no one to receive tourists anymore, and there was a shortage of manpower. At this time, staff were recruited from the society to clean and organize the temple, cook for monks and tourists, and hire people to organize documents and materials. Whether a phenomenon like

is good or bad is not something that an insider cannot understand.

Is it because the temple recruits staff from the public because the current monks cannot cook for themselves?

Didn’t you always claim that you need a college degree to become a monk? Now, monks with a college degree can’t organize documents and materials by themselves?

Why can’t monks with a college degree clean the temples and do greening by themselves?

Nowadays, monks no longer need to meditate at dawn and dusk, copy sutras and recite Buddha's name. They don't do temple affairs and all of them have gone down the mountain. So why do temples remain?

I personally think that temples should return to their essence and do what they should do. Development is development but the essential things cannot be changed.

When recruiting people from the public, does that mean that those who are employed also need to become monks? [Crying]

What do netizens think? Should temples recruit staff from the public?

#Recruitment and job hunting matters#​