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**inhitoemits** · 04-07-2010, 07:50 PM

How does this fit in with wealth and possessions owned by monasteries and temples in the form of many valuable statues, artifacts and so on?

It's apples and oranges, really; as noted the presence of such value may more accurately reflect the state of lay support than monastic sincerity, but the mere presence of stuff does not thereby prove that a monastic found near it thinks of it as 'theirs'.

04-07-2010, 07:50 PM	#6
inhitoemits Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	How does this fit in with wealth and possessions owned by monasteries and temples in the form of many valuable statues, artifacts and so on? It's apples and oranges, really; as noted the presence of such value may more accurately reflect the state of lay support than monastic sincerity, but the mere presence of stuff does not thereby prove that a monastic found near it thinks of it as 'theirs'.
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