China's 'CEO monk' at center of corruption investigation - Yahoo Finance: "In China, he is known as the “CEO monk,” pivotal in the commercialization of his temple and his culture. Turning an ancient temple into a cash cow has been an attempt to help hold onto its history and, in modern times, spread the Buddhist culture.
The notoriety Shi and the temple are receiving now, however, has little to do with the Buddhist way of life. China’s religious affairs bureau has been tasked with investigating alleged improprieties by Shi that include embezzling millions from a corporation run by the temple, a collection of high-end cars (which goes against the Buddhist practice of austerity), a pair of children he may have fathered (violating the monk’s vow of celibacy) and even the hiring of prostitutes.
The accusations come mainly from someone who identifies himself as a “former monk” and who said in a statement last week, urging the government to intervene:
We want the outside world to know that the Shaolin abbot, using Buddhism as a cloak, is a maniacal womanizer and corrupt ‘tiger’ who brazenly exploits Shaolin’s assets and tarnishes its reputation.
The New York Times has looked into the matter and describes in sometime gritty detail one woman’s claims that her child was fathered by Shi:
Among the evidence he has made public to support his accusations are police depositions and photographs of a woman said to be one of the abbot’s lovers, a Shaolin nun who appears dressed in brown monastic robes while holding the baby she says was fathered by Shi Yongxin. Another supposed mistress claims to have physical evidence of his lechery: semen, collected in a condom, that she sent to a doctor for safekeeping. Over the weekend, she used a social media account to post a photo of the underwear she says she wore during sex with the abbot."
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