The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma by Guillaume Rozenberg

The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma

Topics in Contemporary Buddhism

Guillaume Rozenberg with Ward Keeler (Translator)

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1952 a twenty-six-year-old man living in a village in Central Burma was possessed by weikza--humans with extraordinary powers, including immortality. Key figures in Burmese Buddhism, weikza do not die but live on in an invisible realm. From the...

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