Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Sandra Yi, "Vietnamese Buddhist group evicted from Utah temple," Desecret News, 10/9/11, (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705392184/Vietnamese-Buddhist-group-evicted-from-Utah-temple.html)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705392184/Vietnamese-Buddhist-group-evicted-from-Utah-temple.html

This article is about a congregation of Vietnamese Buddhists who were evicted from their temple due to an unsettled misunderstanding. This specific group of Vietnamese Buddhists belong to the Vietnamese Unified Buddhist Association of Utah. "About 10 years ago, the Utah organization agreed to donate the property to the American-Vietnamese Unified Buddhist Congress in the USA." The issue is that a year ago, the deed was transferred to Thich Tri Lang, a Buddhist Monk, without the Utah group knowing. Lang had the group evicted and now uses the temple for his followers. I think this is not very fair, the association should have been notified about it since they worship there daily. I also don't understand why the temple can't be shared. The writer definitely plays up that Lang is the bad guy in this situation which isn't very fair.

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