{"id":5538,"date":"2005-09-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/07\/2005-09-07-chinese-buddhist-monks-get-mbas-to-manage-temple\/"},"modified":"2005-09-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T12:00:00","slug":"2005-09-07-chinese-buddhist-monks-get-mbas-to-manage-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/07\/2005-09-07-chinese-buddhist-monks-get-mbas-to-manage-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Buddhist Monks Get MBAs to Manage Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-Temple-MBA.html\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SHANGHAI, CHINA, September 7, 2005: Call it Zen and the art of business management. Proving that in China&#8217;s booming commercial hub of Shanghai, even Buddhism is big business, a group of 18 Buddhist monks and lay people are taking MBA classes to better manage their temple, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The course, specially designed by Shanghai&#8217;s Jiaotong University, teaches temple management and corporate strategy, along with marketing religious articles. Monks also will gain some tips on how to get ahead in business from Sun Tzu&#8217;s &#8221;The Art of War,&#8221; the report said. &#8221;Through this program, we want to learn how the secular world is managed,&#8221; said Chang Chun, a Zen Buddhist monk who serves as general manager of the city&#8217;s Jade Buddha Temple, according to China&#8217;s Xinhua news agency. Thousands of Buddhist temples have been restored or rebuilt in the last quarter decade, largely to attract tourists. In one extreme example, a ruined Buddhist pagoda in the ancient lakeside city of Hangzhou was recently rebuilt in glass, steel and concrete, complete with escalators, elevators and touch-screen electronic guides.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nytimes.com SHANGHAI, CHINA, September 7, 2005: Call it Zen and the art of business management. Proving that in China&#8217;s booming,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}