راهبان ژاپنی از دنیای مادی استقبال می کنند تا با کاهش کمک های مالی، پول نقد جمع کنند

Japanese monks embrace material world to raise cash as donations shrink

Koukyo Yoneta, a fifth-generation Buddhist priest in a small town in Japan’s Hokkaido, was struggling to keep up with the maintenance needs of his century-old temple, so he chose a path that would have been unthinkable for his predecessors – rather than wait for his congregation to give money they do not have, he invested what they had already donated. The move paid off. Within two years, his portfolio of US…