Picture No | 10041277 |
Date | 1913 |
Description | BUDDHIST MONKS DIE |
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Ten Buddhist monks of Taiwan, disdaining this world and hoping to reach the next, set fire to the Tai-Kohu temple with themselves inside it, and die in a blaze of ecstasy
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Source | unnamed artist in 'Le petit Journal', 25 May 1913 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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