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PHOTOS: Chinese Buddhist Monk Is Mummified And Covered In Gold
NPR ^
| April 28, 2016
| Merrit Kennedy
Posted on 05/05/2016 11:19:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I’d like to mummify you but I wouldn’t encase you in gold.
Trump!!! :)
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:22:59 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: nickcarraway
Buddhists especially ought to know that preserving and paying homage to old dried bones is ridiculous. It’s contrary to everything the Buddha taught. But, it’s their funeral (pun intended).
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:23:45 AM PDT
by
katana
To: dp0622
You would encase me in scingilli?
To: nickcarraway
A rather contradictory display. A thick coat of molten gold poured over the dessicated bones of a fasting, now deceased monk. The result looks like some sort of Oscar to be given to a Non-Profit.
To: nickcarraway
JIM!!! ethnic slur!!!
nah, i’d eat it all before it got to your skin.
especially if the sauce was good!
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:28:16 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: nickcarraway
“You say I have one wish, oh Genie? I’d like to be stiff all the time and awash in gold!”
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:30:16 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(#GiveTrumpAChance and then pray we don't get fooled again)
To: katana
The concept of the incorrupt body of dead saints, monks, or holy people is common to both Buddhist and Christian traditions. Christians don’t worship such people, nor do Buddhists.
Its simply an inexplicable sign of their holiness, which is worthy of respect.
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:36:26 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: nickcarraway
"Li Ren said the golden statue "is now being placed on the mountain for people to worship," the wire service reported."
Didn't I see this in a movie?? And then some stone tablets were thrown at it and all HELL broke loose??
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:37:52 AM PDT
by
Paul46360
To: PGR88
Did u read the story??
Placed on a mountain to be "WORSHIPED"
Holiness??? WTH is that?? Define it in terms of how are they better then you or me or anyone else.
To: nickcarraway
The abbot told AP that the body showed "little sign of deterioration apart from the skin having dried out." There is probably not much difference anyway between the skin of a normal 90-year-old, and the skin of a dead, mummified 90-year-old.
Regards,
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:42:28 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:46:05 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: nickcarraway
“You would encase me in scingilli?”
It would have to be cut very thin.
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:46:32 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
To: Paul46360; PGR88
NPR is not to be trusted on this. Their source is AP which in turn (I think) sources The People’s Daily which is, IIRC, the Communist Party’s newspaper in China.
And I wouldn’t put it past the ChiComs to misrepresent this very sort of thing.
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:51:25 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
or you could have said this..”NPR is not to be trusted. PERIOD!” LOL
To: PGR88
I do appreciate your reply and understand that it’s a tradition in their religion and in many others. The glass encased uncorrupted body of St. Bernadette of Lourdes comes to mind. Parts of the Buddha himself have supposedly been preserved as relics. But I still think it’s curious when juxtaposed to the man’s teachings. But so are a lot of the various practices in the different forms of Buddhism. I think there was a lot syncretic mixing with the Animist religions Buddhism replaced.
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:54:14 AM PDT
by
katana
To: Paul46360
Placed on a mountain to be "WORSHIPED" You just told me not to trust what the media says. Worship was a word chosen by the writer.
Do you believe in Christian Saints?
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posted on
05/05/2016 11:54:48 AM PDT
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PGR88
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/05/2016 12:00:22 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: PGR88
Do you believe in Christian Saints? Christian saints are not worshipped.
Christian saints are prayed to for intersession. As in Saint Benedict pray for me.
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posted on
05/05/2016 12:08:54 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: PGR88
"Therefore, scripturally speaking, the saints are the body of Christ, Christians, the church. All Christians are considered saints. All Christian are saintsand at the same time are called to be saints. First Corinthians 1:2 states it clearly: To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy
The words sanctified and holy come from the same Greek root as the word that is commonly translated saints. Christians are saints by virtue of their connection with Jesus Christ. Christians are called to be saints, to increasingly allow their daily life to more closely match their position in Christ. This is the biblical description and calling of the saints."
http://www.gotquestions.org/saints-Christian.html
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