The colorful life of Japanese monks, drinking wine, eating meat, getting married, traveling, and the uniqueness of cultural traditions
I think that Japanese monks can skip fasting and marry and have children, but this is just a misconception.
There are also many branches of Buddhism in Japan, and each sect has its own precepts, but the monks strictly prohibit vegetarianism, so why are there still monks who drink alcohol, drink alcohol, eat vegetarian food, and even get married?
A large part of the temples in Japan are hereditary, and the temples in Japan are hereditary, which means that the abbots of these temples can inherit their mantle and pass on their property to their descendants, who are also called the owners of the temples or workshops.
Monastic monks can decide for themselves whether they want to become a monk or not, just like the Chinese hermits, the main income of the monastery is the contribution of pilgrims, as well as various ceremonies such as weddings and weddings.
The monks of the branch temple clan live the life of ordinary people, they can go to the bar, they can go to the bar, they can eat, they can have a wedding, they can travel, and they can also have a professional temple keeper to manage the temple of the family lineage.
Therefore, it is also common for monks to marry wives in Japan, the bride is a traditional kimono, and the man is a monk's robe, so the effect of the wedding depends on the power of the temple.
Ohno is one of the two most famous temples in Nagoya, Japan, his grandfather inherited the temple, married a beautiful wife two years later, and the two went to Hawaii for a vacation together. Now the monastery has been handed over to a special monastic monk, and the couple goes to the monastery once a month to harvest.
There are also some temple residents who get married, and after they get married, they will work together in the temple, and the abbot's wife can also serve as the head of the temple, which is called "bosho".
A video of a Japanese monk's marriage has been ** hundreds of thousands of times on the Internet, and many netizens have said "stunned", the man in this video is a man from a temple in Fukuoka, he met a local female believer when he traveled to Phuket, and the two held a wedding ceremony in Phuket three months later. At that time, the man was still singing live, and the Japanese called it an "idol" for the next generation.
Japanese monasteries occasionally hold gatherings for older young couples to get to know each other, but interestingly, monks are more popular with Japanese women, such as in 2015, when Sanjo City held a blind date meeting attended by monks between the ages of 20 and 40, and the girls said that most of the monks were gentle and reliable, and that their jobs were stable.
This seems to be working pretty well!