Picture No | 10041276 |
Date | 1913 |
Description | Monks burn to death in temple |
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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, themselves inside it, and die in religious ecstasy...
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Source | Unnamed artist in 'Le petit Journal' 25 May 1913 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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