Someone voiced in a Buddhist forum in the Net his desire to live in a Chinese Buddhist monastery. The dude must have thought it is heaven living there. In his book, Teaching of a Buddhist monk, Ajahn Sumedho,who until 2010 was abbot of London's Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, recalled the hardship he endured while he was a monk in Wat Pah Pong, Thailand, under Ajahn Chah, the founder of the Thai Forest Tradition and the man instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism in the West. Monks in Wat Pah Pong have to spend hours under the hot tropical sun, sweeping the monastery compound using the brooms they made with their own hands. Then, ropes, pulleys and buckets were used to draw water. Life in a Chinese monastery should be just as difficult. Never mind if Ajahn Sumedho had said that the hard primitive life could be used as meditation objects which taught patience among other things.
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