If you, like me, fear sending your kids off to college only to have them "discover" some new religion or cult like Buddhism and return home one day to curse your life-style, consider putting them into martial arts classes for a couple years before you send them off. I say that because monks are people too and just like any other people, they do sometimes get into fist fights. In the weird news corner of the web, there is a Reuters report detailing
a street fight between monks from two rival Indian temples. The monks were defrocked but you gotta wonder. When you listen to such philosophical giants as Richard Gere speak about their religion, you get the feeling that Buddhists have achieved a level of inner peace that western religion can only aspire to. I guess that's not exactly true! I just hope that one day when monks from rival temples again get into a gang fight somebody has the presence of mind to film the darn thing. I'd pay good money to see that on pay-for-view.