About once or twice a year, I get calls from strangers, directed from people who don't know the answer, who ask me how to become a Buddhist monk.

我每年都有1 - 2次会接到陌生人的电话，一些不了解状况的人问我怎么当一个佛教和尚。

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Now he is leaving Beijing to become a monk, likely in a distant mountain Buddhist or Taoist monastery.

他现在要离开北京出家去了，有可能到深山中去当道士，也有可能入寺为僧。

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He retired more than a decade ago to become a Buddhist monk but the Japanese government brought him out of retirement to bring JAL out of bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Become a Buddhist monk.

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