"Teacher of the pagoda eats dog meat" Nguyen Minh Phuc and the truth about the past? Youtubers are promoting the view?

Nguyen Minh Phuc (living in Tan Phu Trung commune, Cu Chi district) went to Hoang Phap pagoda, asked to stay at the temple as well as ask the temple to help with food and school because Phuc's family situation was difficult. With the compassionate spirit of Buddhism, the pagoda accepted Uncle Phuc to study in the temple. During his time at Hoang Phap pagoda, Uncle Phuc took refuge in the Three Jewels, taking the dharma name Tinh Phu.

Regarding the widespread youtube social network of videos about "a monk eating dog meat" causing a stir in public opinion recently, according to a source of information, many authorities in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City .HCM has coordinated to investigate and handle individuals related to these videos. Venerable Thich An Thuong - Head of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Cu Chi district has just said that a report has been sent to the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha Executive Board on the results of verifying the man who claims to be "Venerable Thich Tam Phuc" and claims to be "Abbot of the Central Hoang Phap Pagoda" is posted on many social networks (Facebook, Youtube).

Specifically, according to the report, over the past time, public opinion has been stirred because on social networks, clips often appear about a monk claiming to be "Venerable Thich Tam Phuc". This person often spoke obscenely, and said that "the monk accepts all kinds of animal meat", contrary to the tradition of the Vietnamese Buddhist Church, making Buddhists angry and indignant.

According to verification, the man in the video is Nguyen Minh Phuc (Lang Cat hamlet, Tan Phu Trung commune, Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City), often wearing a Buddhist monk's robes, eating all kinds of meat, including dog meat. . Even in a video, Mr. Phuc just took a bowl and picked up a piece of meat and said: "The temple teacher eats dog meat, it's extremely delicious... it's too good to be delicious". In another scene, Mr. Phuc said: "...Still eating meat and fish normally, only on the first full moon of the 1st day of the month, teachers eat with Buddhists and become vegetarians. Particularly in some temples... vegetarian, but the monks also eat normal salty food".

More seriously, Mr. Phuc was also recorded fighting scenes, saying that monks can also eat dog meat. To gain more views (views) and likes (likes) on YouTube for the purpose of making money. Mr. Phuc also calls himself "teacher" in the video. Many Youtubers have continuously posted hundreds of clips recording Mr. Nguyen Minh Phuc and his objectionable statements and actions. In just a short time, there were more than 500 videos posted around the above story.

Regarding the distribution of clips with distorting content on social networks, the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Cu Chi district also requested the Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha Executive Board to send a document to the Department of Information and Communications, the City Police. The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee organizes to verify and handle Youtube channels that publish clips of Mr. Nguyen Minh Phuc's statements contrary to tradition and distorting Buddhism in accordance with the law. The People's Committee of Cu Chi district also proposed the Department of Information and Communications, the Ho Chi Minh City Police to handle Youtube channels that have posted video clips that speak contrary to Buddhist tradition and distort Buddhism by Mr. Nguyen Minh Phuc.

Currently, 5 Youtubers have been invited to work and asked to remove incorrect information. Including pictures of fighting, using obscene words...

Through verification, the subject Nguyen Minh Phuc pretended to be a Buddhist monk. House No. 174/13A Lang Cat hamlet is this person's house to live in, not a religious place of worship, without a basis called the Central Hoang Phap Pagoda.

This address previously registered the establishment of 6 businesses with Mr. Nguyen Minh Phuc as the legal representative but did not operate. Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment has decided to revoke all business establishment licenses at this address.

Venerable Thich Chan Tinh, abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda (Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh City) said that Nguyen Minh Phuc (living in Tan Phu Trung commune, Cu Chi district) had come to Hoang Phap pagoda and asked to stay at the temple as well as stay at the temple. Ask the temple to help you with your studies because Phuc's family is difficult.

With the compassionate spirit of Buddhism, the pagoda accepted Uncle Phuc to study in the temple. During his time at Hoang Phap pagoda, Uncle Phuc took refuge in the Three Jewels, taking the dharma name Tinh Phu.

"After 3-4 years Uncle Phuc returned home, the temple did not know what Uncle Phuc did. Some time later, Uncle Phuc said that he visited a number of pagodas in many places, then Uncle Phuc shaved his head and dressed himself. monastic robes and named himself Thich Tam Phuc, and at the same time, Uncle Phuc also claimed to be the abbot of Hoang Phap Pagoda and printed his own business cards.

When he heard about the incident, Hoang Phap Pagoda spoke up, this person expressed his repentance and promised not to repeat the offense," said Venerable Thich Chan Tinh.

Mr. Phuc left the temple and went "from place to place". After that, he returned home and built the "temple" Ngo Chan Tu - the house where Mr. Phuc's mother was staying. Venerable Thich Chan Tinh, who contacted Phuc, said he could not use the name of Venerable Ngo Chan Tu to name his temple. Phuc then changed the name of Phuc's "pagoda" to Ngo Chan Tu (with only one word difference).

The head of the Cu Chi district's culture department said that after receiving the feedback, the Cu Chi District People's Committee directed the unit to go to Mr. Phuc's house and asked to remove the signs hanging at the house saying Hoang Phap Central Pagoda. and Buddha statue.

"When the authorities came down to handle it, this person also complied with the dismantling, when asked about the papers, Mr. Phuc said he was waiting for the paperwork. Because this person did not have a license to operate, the authorities should capabilities do not allow local operations."

The People's Committee of Cu Chi district also convened many meetings with the participation of representatives of functional agencies: district Fatherland Front Committee, District Police, Finance - Planning Department, Justice Department, Labor - Invalids and Commune Department. Association, Culture and Information Department, Tax Department and People's Committee of Tan Phu Trung Commune and the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Cu Chi district for handling.

In addition, the Office of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha has also confirmed that Nguyen Minh Phuc's study documents are forged, made by this person himself. The medals, medals and certificates of merit of the central government, through the examination of the list of rewards stored at the Emulation - Commendation Board, did not have Mr. Nguyen Minh Phuc's name on it, and authorities confirmed that Mr. Phuc had faked it himself.

Are youtubers abetting misconduct?

From the videos "the monk eats dog meat" it can be seen that the youtubers are advocating for actions that are contrary to social ethics. And yet, there are also a lot of videos containing violent content, gang fighting, self-humiliation, eating precious animals, buying and selling guns, dangerous weapons. There are even channels that deliberately flaunt, dress provocatively to catch views.

YouTubers are essentially clip makers who bring creative content to share with the community. However, there is a part of YouTubers who create offensive, harmful, and ridiculous clips. Million-view videos can bring channel owners a lot of money, but will they be happy with the above benefits when they receive a lot of criticism from the online community and help corrupt the culture.

Recently, Google is also quite strong in removing YouTube channels with unhealthy content. YouTube alone has a policy to turn off monetization for videos, content and titles with objectionable and violent content, even if the views are up to thousands or millions of views. This is how YouTube restricts negative videos.

A significant number is that up to 8,000 malicious videos have been blocked and removed on YouTube at the request of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information from early 2018 to mid-2019 after working with Google representative. However, the number of new malicious videos is still increasing by the hour.

That shows that no matter how strict YouTube's policy is, it is still not possible to promptly review all morally objectionable videos, such as YouTubers pouring eggs, pouring water. fish on the mother's head to catch the view. Therefore, viewers have a huge role to play in preventing this situation.

The interaction between YouTubers and viewers is a supply-demand relationship, where there is demand, there is supply. The psychology of viewers always feels curious, interested in new, unique and strange content and is ready to click to see, even share bad content just for the sake of curiosity. Although not intended to promote, even viewers condemn dirty viewing videos, but the act of clicking to watch and share bad videos has indirectly spread harmful content to the community.

The unpredictable dangers of "dirty" videos on Youtube

One thing many "dirty" and crappy YouTube videos have in common is that they often have a lot of views, but the majority of viewers are children and minors. One reason these "dirty" videos appeal to so many children is that they often have curious titles and beautifully designed avatars, so that even children who can't read when Watching Youtube also feels curious and attractive to click to watch.

Despite having "dirty" and harmful content for children, owners of these Youtube channels often do not turn on child restriction mode for their videos because this will reduce the amount of interaction of the video, thereby reducing the amount of time. view of these videos. Therefore, it is not too difficult to come across videos with "dirty" and bullshit content appearing right on the Youtube homepage or in the suggested areas.

If children and teenagers have access to "dirty" videos such as the video "the temple monk eats dog meat" on Youtube, it will have many serious consequences, when those children are still at the age of discovery and not enough. mature awareness.

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