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their Nirvana through an act of self -immolation by fireand it is said that every
year among the lamaresais of Tien-taiin the province of Tai-chowsome half-a-dozen
bonzes thus devote themselves to death. These unfortunate persons believe that their
voluntary destruction crowns the monastery with honours and blessingthey are aware
that they will be worshipped after their suicideand they suppose that they will become the
divinities of the district and possess the power to protect the whole neighbourhoodto
grant fair weather and lucky seasonsa bounteous harvest and all prosperity. Such public
incinerations are conducted with great ceremonyand take place upon a major festival
which is bound to attract crowds of pilgrims and reverent suppliants to the spot.[25] It is
said that among the Eskimo of Bering Strait a sorcerer has been known to burn himself
alivefully believing that thus he will return to life as a shaman with much greater powers
and a far fuller knowledge of magic than he had hitherto enjoyed.[26] It may be
remembered that even such low motives as vanity and a craving for mere notoriety have
proved an incentive sufficiently powerful to induce men to seek a dramaticif painful death
by fire. Thus the charlatan Peregri [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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