Law Practice
Oct. 15, 2008
Buddhist Monks Find Legal Spats Fray Patience
"The Buddhist tradition is to find a solution through communication, not courts or police," said Suon In, pictured right, a monk from the Oakland Cambodia Buddhist Society temple.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Patience, a key element of Buddhism, is a practice Oakland and Long Beach Cambodian monks are trying to keep as their temples sit at the center of two separate, nasty legal disputes over property and money. Both problems started when congregations accused outside religious groups of seeking financial gain by taking over their temples and the hundreds of thousands of dollars associated with them. Allegatio...
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