I remember Tibetan Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to protest the West's involvement in Vietnam. Well they got their wish, then the Chinese communist came in and kill them and further took over their country. Those guys must take some serious drugs to meditate with.
"In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs."
I remember Tibetan Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to protest the West's involvement in Vietnam. Well they got their wish, then the Chinese communist came in and kill them and further took over their country. Those guys must take some serious drugs to meditate with.
That monk was Vietnamese.
"In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs."
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/
Buddhist monks don't drink alcohol or take drugs.