Bilingual monks at Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple take on role of tour guide



SHANGHAI : The Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is a popular tourist destination in China. To cope with the influx of foreigners during the Olympic games, monks at the temple have been busy learning foreign languages.
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Category: Politics | Tags: china, popular, games, olympic, foreign, shanghai, tour, temple, monks

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Best tour guides ever.

That’s really nice of them.

I want a Monk for a tour guide. :O

Hrm it’s part of their job description.

Really? That’s weird.

I wonder what other languages they know.

Article says in addition to being monks they study other languages to help out tourists at their temple.

They’re secretly CIA agents.

Secret agent monks? Sounds like a movie.