Amazon started out as an online bookstore in 1994 but quickly became an online giant which today sells most anything a person could want. They even handle monk rental and apparently Buddhist organizers are not pleased,accusing Amazon of commercializing religion...that may be true of Buddhist religion but for most other religions that ship has sailed. Of course it wasn't Amazon directly offering monks for rent but a provider from Japan,"Mr. Monk Delivery". Communal ties to Buddhist temples are fading and it has become difficult to find monks to perform funerals and other rituals,this service offers a consumer friendly approach to going through a temple. The price is better too,for $300 you get transportation costs for the monk,the monk (of course) and a donation where going through a temple can cost from $830-$8,500 for pretty much the same thing. It seems to me more like the middle man has been removed from the equation,but don't quote me on that.
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