Mummified Buddhist Monk Gets Covered in Gold and Turned into a Statue
In accordance with his wishes, revered Buddhist monk Fu Hou was mummified upon his death in 2012. But his companions at Chongfu Temple, in southeastern China, felt the need to do something more in order to commemorate his devotion to Buddhism. So they made the decision to cover his body in gold, an honor reserved for […]
Chinese Millionaire Gives Up Fortune, Lives in Isolation for Two Years to Become Buddhist Monk
We thought Indian millionaire Bhanwarlal Raghunath – who gave up his fortune to become a monk – was one of a kind, but we were wrong. Meet Liu Jingchong, a rich Chinese businessman who has also renounced his wealth for monkhood. Jingchong, 39, was bitten by the spiritual bug in 2012, after a freak car […]
Scientists Declare Buddhist Monk the Happiest Man in the World
Matthieu Ricard, a French researcher turned Buddhist monk was declared the happiest man on Earth by a group of scientists, after it was discovered his brain produces a level of gamma waves never before reported in the field of neuroscience. A former molecular geneticist who left his life and career behind to discover the secrets […]