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12 comments to "Self-Mummifying Suicidal Monks of Japan."
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Miss Cellania
June 29th, 2007 at
9:16 pm
As horrifying as this is, a trivial question occurred to me: If they are in a stone tomb, how do they know when a day passes and when to ring the bell?
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Adam Stanhope
June 29th, 2007 at
10:42 pm
I think there is a good chance that this story is fiction.
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Chris
June 29th, 2007 at
11:11 pm
I dunno : human mind can be very weird…
not much there, just the word “allegedly”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu -
Eva Snyder
June 29th, 2007 at
11:22 pm
I had never heard of the Japanese Mummified Monks. But I had heard of the Tibetan ones. There is nothing particularly improbable about it.
“Mystery of the Tibetan Mummy”
Buddhist Mummies of Japan
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jael
June 29th, 2007 at
11:30 pm
Certainly hope no one is this vacuous, narcissitic and stupid. Can’t imagine what I’d say to my Creator on meeting them after going through all this idiocy. But then, plenty of people have much to answer for, so…
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Johnny Cat
June 30th, 2007 at
1:55 am
Fascinating.
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Adam Stanhope
June 30th, 2007 at
8:48 am
jael:
They are Buddhists - they don’t believe in your creator.
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Gellner
June 30th, 2007 at
12:15 pm
Religion makes people do insane things…
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david
June 30th, 2007 at
6:10 pm
Damn. That sucks. Urushiol is an active compound in poison oak/ivy that causes the itching. I’d hate to drink that.
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Tom
June 30th, 2007 at
7:06 pm
This is apparently in the pop culture of Japan, as one of them made an appearance on the animated series Inu-Yasha (Saint Hakushin, I believe), a monk who sealed himself into a tomb to purify a mountian of the demons living there.
Of course, popular referance is not conclusive evidence, but at least it is less likely that it is something that was made up by westerners.
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mike
June 30th, 2007 at
9:39 pm
“how do they know when a day passes and when to ring the bell?”
(voice in tomb)
“hachiman-rokusen-sambyaku-kyuju-hachi-mississippi, hachiman-rokusen-sambyaku-kyuju-kyu-mississippi, hachiman-rokusen-yombyaku!”
“ichi, ni, san…(ad nauseam)”
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mike
July 2nd, 2007 at
11:30 am
Is it ironic that the ad on the linked page is for McDonalds?
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