Monks in Jail, Monks on Beach (video)

Good Buddhist monastics get around...in a Brooklyn jail helping youths to Virginia Beach trying to relocate statues of Kwan Yin.

Buddhist monks face heavy problem
Jennifer Jiggetts (The Virginian-Pilot)

Buddhist monks who have had trouble finding a place to [show reverence] are looking for a way to move two large statues and won’t find peace until they do.

The ordeal started when the monks moved about seven months ago to the Dong Hung Temple on Davis Street, just east of the Newtown Road and Virginia Beach Boulevard intersection. A truck and a forklift were used to move some statues to the new site, about three miles from the former site on Downey Drive in Kempsville. But the two largest statues were too big for the truck or the forklift.

Since then, the monks have been trying to find a way to pay for larger forklifts to move those statues. Some smaller statues, which are not an issue, also remain at the Downey Drive location. More