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Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks
    #22158663 - 08/28/15 10:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

I saw a video from back in the 60s of a monk setting himself on fire and my question is why. Why in gods name does he willingly set himself on fire  it looks so painful yet he never screams he just calmly sits and burns. Like I get he wanted to protest but he took it to unimaginable level and why would he do that is it a monk thing to do? I guess I want to know why he did what he did was it buddhism or something different?


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Re: Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks [Re: thewanderer25]
    #22158673 - 08/28/15 10:20 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Discipline + faith = that stuff.

Some people theorized that they had that condition with which you don't feel pain, but I think there were far too many cases of those self-immolations in isolated areas to warrant that explanation. The mind is an amazing thing.


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Re: Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks [Re: thewanderer25]
    #22158701 - 08/28/15 10:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

The 66 year old monk Thích Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese. I never knew the fascinating fact about his heart, which has become a relic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Quảng_Đức (this link seems to be encrypted and needs to be opened in a separate window).



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Re: Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #22159176 - 08/29/15 02:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

:whathesaid: From wat I understand it was basically to bring awareness to their situation.

And damnnn if it didn't get everyones attention thats for sure


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Re: Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks [Re: mushmagic] * 1
    #22159604 - 08/29/15 08:11 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

"Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire"


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Re: Self Immolation By Buddhist Monks [Re: thewanderer25]
    #22161417 - 08/29/15 03:56 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Here is the context of Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem#Buddhist_crisis

The government of South Vietnam at the time was pro-Western and very sectarian (Diem and many of the army's officer corps were Catholic) and actively persecuted Buddhists, especially bhikkhus/monks.


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