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Buddhist monks filmed smoking, drinking, playing poker

By John Thomas Didymus, Digital Journal, May 12, 2012



Seoul, South Korea
-- Eight monks of the Korean Buddhist Jogye sect were secretly filmed drinking, smoking and gambling in their hotel suite. The hidden surveillance camera recorded them playing a game of high stakes poker in which $875,000 was won.  More

 

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