Visited Shuang Lin Monastry in Singapore on Vesak day, lot's of devotees at the 城隍庙 'City God' Temple section, associated with folk beliefs.
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🗣️ Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (A free, 42-minute podcast from 2018)
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https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/immortals_keeler
promising him special access to a better future life and even nibbāna, that possesses great appeal to him. […] When people engage in religious behavior, they are trying to see where there is a concentration of power to which they can connect themselves. So, the question is, where do you think such concentrations of power lie?
📰 Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 36-page article from 2010)
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https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/on-saints-and-wizards-ideals-of-human_pranke-patrick
Known in Burmese as the weikza-lam or ‘Path of Esoteric Knowledge,’ this tradition has as its goal not the termination of saṃsāric life as an arahant, but rather its indefi nite prolongation through the attainment of virtual immortality
The only link I could think of, regarding Passover and Qingming crossover that’s happening today is ancient graves of ancient Egyptian royalty.
(By the way, The Pyramids were not built by slaves!)
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The Open Buddhist University
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Dr Mark Bahnisch
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