Punk Buddhist Priestess Grinds Out the Grudge!

According to this story in the Mainichi Daily News, an English language paper in Japan, there's a punk rock Buddhist priestess stirring things up in Osaka.

The story references an earlier story from Spa!, a notorious Japanese gossip rag and says:Osaka's Kakuryoji is headed by a self-professed punk priestess called Rengetsu who has shunned the traditional money oriented path toward Enlightenment, instead using a smidgen of Nirvana-like grunge to guide lost souls toward the path to, well, Nirvana, according to Spa! (3/13).

Rengetsu had long criticized Buddhist priests for charging hefty fees to conduct traditional funerals, so didn't see that path as an option. When her father died, leaving her as the new chief priestess, Rengetsu opted to introduce a little originality, choosing to put on punk funerals. Parishioners were inflamed by the diabolical death rites and cut off financing Kakuryoji. Rengetsu was forced to fund the temple on her savings.Wow. Sounds like what might happen if one of the SuicideGirls read my column and took the vows! Rengetsu, you go girl!

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