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We don't know who he was.

Monks.

The monk?

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What kind of monk are you, huh?

What are you, a monk?

This is Paldin.

My mother asked us to feel her hand.

We will send our walking monk.

Don't you have a running monk?

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So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

Some people hit the bottle, start taking medication.

Well, obviously it changed things.

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I even convinced the monk.

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And so it's not something happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get.

Same kind the 13 monks used to save the Tang Emperor.

Others posed as monks begging for alms.

It's interesting. If I asked you to name the great religions of the world, what would you say?

He practices austerities almost like a monk.

Is it mainly Buddhism here? Yeah, it's Buddhism.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas,

Well, I'm a loner, but not a monk.

And this is a temple in Japan for a Buddhist monk.

But the beauty is that is was installed by a priest, a Hindu priest, who's only done eight years of primary schooling never been to school, never been to college.

They're Buddhist prayer beads.

He's supposed to be religious and all this.

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You saw a woman who was more clear than a pool of water in a mountain stream.

It has quite a long lineage.

As the Burmese protests about economic hardship and military brutality grew in size and frequency, reports of military violence also increased.

Tibetan monks think that sexual abstinence gives absolute insight.

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In the beginning they were reluctant because they thought that the life of a monk is hard, difficult.

And by 1963 this kind of got out of hand.

An old man and a boy had tea here. A soldier monk rides with them.

Because you have been holding it since this morning, he said.

Initially, coffee was prepared and consumed as part of religious ceremonies.

Shiva's the liberal god. And they work together.

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So we went on and we looked in Wikipedia, we found this map.

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