If you asked me which assistants I thought got paid the most, I’d guess it was an assistant to the person who got paid the most, like a CEO or a big movie star. Thus I’d also conclude that an assistant to a monk, a person who does not earn – or spend much time thinking about – much money, didn’t have a lot of cash on hand. However, one monk’s assistant, Raymond Yeung of Singapore, decided he wanted to buck tradition. The assistant to Buddhist monk Ming Yi ran up credit card debt and even took out a loan to finance his extravagant lifestyle. He accepted a loan from Ren Ci, a hospital that Ming Yi founded, even though he was not able to pay it back. He – and his boss – are currently on trial.
What would former monk’s assistant Leonard Cohen have to say about this, I wonder?
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