Thai Monk Thammakorn Cuts Off His Own Head as Sacrifice For Budha
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Apr 21, 2021
A 68 year-old monk Thammakorn Wangpreech in Thailand has chopped off his own head using a guillotine.
He regarded his suicide as an offering to Buddha, hoping he would be reincarnated as a 'higher spiritual being'.
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Thammakorn had reportedly been planning the bizarre ritual sacrifice for more than five years
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The monk believed that making the offering to the deity would bring him good luck in the afterlife - a belief known in Buddhism as 'making merit'.
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The monk was found dead on April 15 by his brother at the Wat Phu Hin temple in Nong Bua Lamphu province, in north-eastern Thailand.
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