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Look what they did to my wife's monk
The monk was her teacher when she was a child in Cambodia. He died at 97 recently so they embalmed him. He survived the Khmer Rouge, which was rare for these guys.
She just got back from a trip to her homeland.
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Im guessing they aren't using an MB designed climate control system to keep that corpse from rotting!
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The Monk bought lunch.
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Looks like he didn't eat much lunch.
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Sounds like he would have been someone to listen to and learn from about life.
RIP teacher. |
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Quote:
It's always nice to know that there was someone ouit there like that, and it's always sad when they pass on.
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I met him 9 years ago while visiting. Interesting guy.
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I bet he was. It'd be interesting to talk with people who have survived war atrocities.
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My wife knows all about that, keeps it all bottled-up of course.
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Asian people have a funny way of handling these things. I couldn't get my great grandma to say a single thing about the war.
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Western psychotherapy is wholeheartedly rejected.
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What did the monk spend his life doing?
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The Mahayana answer would be "nothing"
Most of it is leading a contemplative life, but some of it involved teaching and community work.
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And the capitalist answer would be--"Well get off your butt and start producing something."
What kind of teaching and what kind of community work? How did your wife get to know him?
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Teaching related to Thervadan Buddhism, but Cambodian Buddhism has it's own spin on things. He helped the village with various improvements and had ties with local officials. He was the head monk of my wife's village (just outside of Phnom Pehn
This is from Wikipedia, which got it from a trusted source: "The cornerstones of Cambodian Buddhism are the Buddhist bhikkhu and the wat. Traditionally, each village has a spiritual center—a wat—where from five to more than seventy bhikkhus reside. A typical wat in rural Cambodia consists of a walled enclosure containing a sanctuary, several residences for bhikkhus, a hall, a kitchen, quarters for nuns, and a pond. The number of monks varies according to the size of the local population. The sanctuary, which contains an altar with statues of the Buddha and, in rare cases, a religious relic, is reserved for major ceremonies and usually only for the use of bhikkhus. Other ceremonies, classes for monks and for laity, and meals take place in the hall. Stupas containing the ashes of extended family members are constructed near the sanctuary. Fruit trees and vegetable gardens tended by local children are also part of the local wat. The main entrance, usually only for ceremonial use, faces east; other entrances are located at other points around the wall. There are no gates."
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