In Pure Spirit

This news footage for the UK but from China appears to show a young boy with very strange eyes. It’s not just that they are blue (like a Westerner, says the reporter) but that they seem to reflect light back like cat eyes. The boy has amazed the medical community because it appears as if [...]

It’s the Chinese New Year today. May the Year of the Dragon be a good one for you. Although these two dancing puppets aren’t dragons – they’re Chinese tigers – it’s still a good time to share the video. The two dancing tigers start of dancing to some traditional Chinese music but that doens’t last [...]

In the Fuijan Province of China a pig with two snouts and a strange third eye in the middle of her head as been born. It was the 5th pig in the litter. The piglet wasn’t able to take the breast milk of its mother but was rescued by the farmer Xiao Jintu. Xiao now [...]

ITN, Independent Television News, based in the UK has this markable video footage of a city. The footage shows a modern city, with buildings such as skyscrapers and bridges and it looks finished and complete. There is no city. The whole image is believed to be nothing more than a mirage in the mist. You’ll [...]

A cat in China has given birth to a rather strange looking kitten. In fact, Zhou Yun is suggesting that her cat has given birth to a puppy. Here’s the picture. What do you think? Zhou does have a pet dog that likes to sleep, er, beside the cat. However, it’s biologically impossible for a [...]

This may seem like an idiot move by some weirdly totalitarianism country – but China has banned any Buddhist monk from being reincarnated without permission. The law came into effect in 2007. Sound crazy? There’s a sinister side. The current Dalai Lama is 76 and he’s beginning to plan his succession – in other words [...]

An expedition led by Michael Eisenriegler has found the Buddhist relics which belonged to the 19th century Buddhist master Danzan Ravjaa. The relics, which include statues, art work, manuscripts and personal belongings, were hidden in the 1930s during Mongolia’s Communist purge. Hundreds of Buddhist monasteries were destroyed and looted during this time.

In order to save the relics from destruction they were hidden in a total of 64 crates. These crates where buried in the Gobi Desert by a Buddhist monk called Tudev. Tudev passed the secret of the relics’ locations on to his grandson who was able to rediscover some of the boxes in 1990. Michael Eisenriegler’s expedition has unearthed two more of the historically and religiously important crates.

The Chongqing Business Daily is reporting an unpleasant story of a Chinese man applying burning cotton to his granddaughter’s body in order to exercise her of evil ghosts.

The girl had been turning gradually yellow after she was born on July the 5th. The condition, however, was typical neonatal jaundice and not uncommon.

The ritual involved inserting burning cotton threads into the girl’s nose and laying them over her stomach. She was admitted to hospital and released on the 21st.

Chinese newspapers are carrying the story of a teenage girl who’s body was dug up in the Sha’anxi province so she could become the ghost bride of a recently deceased single man.

The Telegraph reports that the grieving father of the deceased man paid four people around £2,700 to find a companion for his son in the afterlife.

In some rural areas of China there is the belief that the bodies of women who have only recently died can be married to the corpse of a single man and buried with him in order to create a ghost bride for the afterlife.

At the last minute a court in China has decided to postpone judgement on a living Tibetan Buddha.

Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche faces allegations of illegally possessing weapons and seizing government land.

The delay is widely interpreted as promising by legal experts. It is incredibly rare for a Chinese court to issue a delay and signs suggest that both the international public audience and the highly spirited defence has resulted in on-going judicial debate in China.