Stories about relics
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about relics from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- The Buddha relics multipliedStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Doubting theoretical-physicist Brahm softens when he sees 'weird stuff': relics he left with Singapore disciples were two in a sealed container; months later Angie Monksfield…
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these relics can multiply when I first relics which I I had and I left them with the disciples in Singapore. They had two little relics in this enclosed container. And recently during the reigns retreat, I actually visited for two days Singapore what's called a sata the allowance from the Buddha to at the end of my month retreat to go there for two days. They were opening a new Buddhist center there on Lavender Street. 10 million bucks. They were raised for it. And when they were opening it, they wanted me to be the VIP there. So I went there. One of the first things which I did was make sure those relics I'd given them about 10 years ago, they had kept them. And the reason I wanted to make sure they were still keeping them and respecting them because when I gave them there was two relics in there. And then after about 3 months, the leader of the Buddhist fellowship at that time, Angie Monksfield, she wrote me this facts back and you won't believe this is now three. They multiply
- The Norwich priest who bit off a saint's fingerStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A Norwich priest visiting a highly guarded saint's corpse in Europe bites off a finger, hides it in his mouth, and brings the relic home — later made a saint himself because the…
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priest from Norwich in England and he went to visit one of these saints over in Europe somewhere. It was high security there because if you had the relics, you had a lot of money. He this corpse was very old. this uh priest bit off the finger and hid it in his mouth. That's really weird. But he brought it back to the city of Norwich in England. And he was just made a saint himself cuz that brought so much uh business into the town of Norwich. And he made him a saint eventually had a big cathedral there simply because he broke the law and bit off a finger of a of a saint