Buddhist monks start MBA degrees
IN Buddhist teachings making money is an unlikely path to Nirvana but in increasingly inconoclastic China it just may well be a leap of faith.
Taking a page from their Communist Party brethren, a group of 18 monks in Shanghai have signed up for MBA classes in hopes of better managing their temple, Xinhua news agency reported.
"Through this program, we want to learn how the secular world is managed," Xinhua quoted Chang Chun, a Zen Buddhist monk and general manager of the city's century-old Jade Buddha Temple, as saying.
Shanghai's Jiaotong University has just launched a special half-year MBA course for monks running Buddhist temples.
The course offers basic economics and accounting but also temple management and philosophy and religious product marketing.
Read the complete article at News.com.au
Taking a page from their Communist Party brethren, a group of 18 monks in Shanghai have signed up for MBA classes in hopes of better managing their temple, Xinhua news agency reported.
"Through this program, we want to learn how the secular world is managed," Xinhua quoted Chang Chun, a Zen Buddhist monk and general manager of the city's century-old Jade Buddha Temple, as saying.
Shanghai's Jiaotong University has just launched a special half-year MBA course for monks running Buddhist temples.
The course offers basic economics and accounting but also temple management and philosophy and religious product marketing.
Read the complete article at News.com.au
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