You are twisting the article.
The monk who accepted the shrine names (牌位) did not know who those people were. The woman who requested those shrine plates claimed they were her friends.
The abbot of the temple tried to cover up the incident after it was discovered. He was given disciplinary action. Other government officials were also given disciplinary action for failing to discover the issue beforehand.
The woman who deceived the monks and requested the plates has been arrested and will be prosecuted.
The other punishments were rather severe considering that most of those punished did not even know about the shrine plates.
I don't think it's necessary to defend temples and monks too much.However, the monk who accepted the request was indeed a lack of education. According to the news description, he didn't even finish junior high school.
Before that, there were many accusations about the temple managers' excessive participation in commercial activities(For example, CEO of Shaolin Temple). There is no doubt that this time they suffered retribution for their excessive pursuit of money.
This is the report letter of 2019 on the chaotic religious management in Nanjing.
A temple administrator violated the Buddhist commandments, stole and sold the precious property of the temple, bribed officials, and had close relations with underworld personnel.
From this incident, we can see the dirty degree of religious groups.
Most likely some Jap nationalist just bribed them to put the names there. Investigation would clear things up.
Regardless, as the tablets now exist, it's an opportunity to desecrate them, practice for the day when Chinese troops drag the dirty ashes from out of Japan's own war criminal shrines, regardless of Japan itself voluntarily surrenders them or if the Army seizes it by force. And making clear the stance of China against nazism, which I'm sure Korea would also appreciate.
Trash should be disposed of in such a way it doesn't damage the environment. In ww2, the Soviet Union had an excellent way of removing nazi insignias. Flags/symbols were put on a wooden platform by people wearing gloves, then the symbols together with the platform and the gloves were burned, so the ground would not be polluted by Nazism. This method can be used to dispose of Japanazi remains.
The perpetrator was perfectly stupid.A disgruntled schemer will definitely not use her real name.Some people lament that we cannot understand those who are addicted to religion. Their thinking is not on the same channel as ours.
You can see that these obsessed believers do many things you can't understand.These Buddhist believers believe that "releasing animals" is a way to accumulate merit.
Then you can see them pouring mineral water into the river, because according to Buddhist theory, there are countless lives in a drop of water.
But compared with those who release poisonous snakes in the park, those old people are still normal people.
In addition, it needs to be corrected that there are no ashes in the Yasukuni Shrine, and the Japanese write the names of war criminals in the memorial list.
There are many guesses on the Internet about the motives of the perpetrators.The perpetrator has a history of traveling to Japan, and this kind of logic of regardless of right and wrong is indeed only Japanese can think of.
Another view is that this is related to an ancient folk religious custom in Nanjing,the worship of evil gods and evil spirits - that is, dead evil people - has always been practiced in southeastern China.
As for the impact of this matter, I advise you not to read Japanese comments, which will raise your blood pressure.As always, these Japanese Internet right-wing claims that "massacre is a lie" and "the Japanese army helps the poor in China" and other shameless remarks.