buddhists & buddhism

This blue-eyed beared monk sounds like quite a character! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma And he has some great legends retold on the same page:

http://www.asahi.com/english/world/TKY200407090162.html

Just got through watching a Japanese film called Yokai Monsters or Spook Warfare (the Japanese title is Yokai daisenso). The general plot involved a Babylonian monster who escapes from a statue and invades 18th century Japan. He takes over a lord's house and starts draining people's blood. His...

Just watched the programme on Channel 4 re Buddhist monks who, through a process of starvation, eating pine bark and mineral deposits rich in arsenic, and finally walling themselves up to die, managed to convert their bodies into mummies with no intervention after death at all. This raises so...

Meditation Shown to Light Up Brains of Buddhists LONDON (Reuters) - Buddhists really are happy, calm and serene people -- at least according to their brain scans. Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in...