[Dixielandjazz] Newspaper story

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

OK, I will see your Monk and raise you with an OJ
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:49 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Newspaper story


> Dear friends,
> I'm sorry to be a bit late with this one.
> An article by journalist Les Kennedy (heavily edited below) appeared last 
> weekend in The Sydney Morning Herald regarding a self-proclaimed Buddhist 
> monk known as Ajahn Yanatharo, The bespectacled 62-year-old, 
> sandal-wearing and saffron-robed Buddhist is known to locals as the 
> operator of a laundrette in inner-Sydney, Australia. He is also well-known 
> to local drug squad detectives as Jose Maria Sanz-Tonnelie, having been 
> arrested on 12 cannabis-related drug charges, including hydroponically 
> cultivating it at the laundrette which also serves as his home.
> In 2002 he was featured on ABC Radio National as Ajarn Jose, born in 
> Argentina into a wealthy family that made its fortune in tobacco. He spent 
> most of his life travelling and studying, has an undergraduate degree in 
> science, is an MD with a PhD from UCLA in the US. He came to Australia to 
> teach, bought a million-dollar house and settled into the high life until 
> he abandoned his fortune, his Catholicism, and his family to become a 
> Buddhist Monk and the Buddhist chaplain at Canberra University.
> According to a biography published on the Buddhist centre's website, he is 
> also works at St Vincent Hospital as a monk dealing with HIV/Aids and drug 
> addicts. This has been denied by a hospital spokesman.
> As he left the court last Friday ,following his appearance on the 
> drug-related charges, he was arrested again on a charge of public mischief 
> for falsely reporting  to police in May that both his US and Argentinian 
> passports had been stolen while he was staying with other monks.
> [Still with me?]
> Yet according to earlier court documents, both passports had been 
> surrendered to the court when he was given bail so he could receive 
> continuing treatment for cancer and that he had tried unsuccessfully in 
> May to have his passports returned because he had "nil convictions", 
> strong community ties and needed to travel to Thailand to attend a United 
> Nations Conference. He has indicated that he will plead not guilty to all 
> charges re-listed for a court hearing on September 25.
> The point of all this on our dedicated jazz site?
> The inspired sub-heading to the SMH news item regarding this interesting 
> person: 'The felonious monk and his trail of lies.'
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
> For anyone interested, the full story with pic is at
>     www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/14/1189276983707.html
>
>
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