In an interview featured over the electronic media, erudite Buddhist monk, Chancellor of the Kelaniya University, Prof. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thero, said in lighter vein that journalists should learn karate to face attacks by political goons and their lackeys. This advice should also have been extended to Buddhist monks who have taken to politics. They faced a delicate situation in parliament at the hands of a virulent ruling party MP. It is alleged that a monk MP was hit in the abdomen with a mobile phone.