Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think. Is this real? A mutation? Evolution?

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This would not be the first time someone with superhero-like powers being “found” so we should be cautious of this video. Don’t you think?

Can he really see in the dark?

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The two dancing tigers start of dancing to some traditional Chinese music but that doens’t last long as we see the pair begin to shuffle to Party Rock Anthem.

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Not bad, huh? I thought the coordination between the front of the tigers and their back legs was especially impressive.

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The piglet wasn’t able to take the breast milk of its mother but was rescued by the farmer Xiao Jintu. Xiao now plans to raise the pig as a pet.

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Do you think we’re having more mutant animal births than ever before? Are we just hearing about them more often?

Source Obvious Winner via The Metro.

There is no city. The whole image is believed to be nothing more than a mirage in the mist. You’ll need to watch the video before you can see how remarkable this claim is.

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What do you think? Is that a mirage? If it’s not a mirage then how did a city briefly appear over a river?

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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 cat to give birth to a dog. If this dog-like kitten isn’t actually just a kitten with natural mutations then Zhou’s local vet has an alternative theory. One of the poor cats kittens died shortly after birth. Could the cat have gone out, stumbled upon a littler of newborn pups and taken one home to replace her kitten?

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Last month we had news that a sheep in China had given birth to a dog. This is equally impossible, of course, but far harder to suggest that the sheep went out and stole a puppy to ease its heartache. What do you think is going on?

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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 – he’s planning on what happens next. After the death of the current Dalai Lama their will be a search for the body the new Dalai Lama has been reincarnated into.

Right now, the Dalai Lama is saying that he will “refuse” to be reborn in Tibet while the Chinese control it.

China hope that by trying to regulate reincarnation that they’ll be able to pick, or perhaps cast doubt on, the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.

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What’s your take on this? Will this new law give officials in China any control or say on who the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama will be? It’ll certainly be hard for someone in Tibet, who didn’t have “permission”, to announce themselves as the next Dalai Lama.

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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.

Eisenriegler told the BBC World Service, “It is of tremendous value for Mongolian culture because Buddhism was almost extinct in the Communist times, especially in the 1930s.

“I’m totally exhausted right now but I’m also totally impressed with what I’ve seen.”

It is thought that as many as 20 crates may still be hidden in the desert.

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What do you think should be done with these relics? Do they belong to Tudev’s family?

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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.

“The girl could have died,” said Wang Yongming, the baby’s doctor. “If the burns were infected, the girl could be killed by blood poisoning that normally follows serious infections.”

The use of burning cotton to rebuke ghosts is not unique to China. Cunningham’s Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs* describes how cotton can be planted or scatted in the yard to keep ghosts away and how cotton balls soaked in vinegar can be placed on windowsills to keep evil at bay.

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How should authorities react in cases like this? Should the grandfather be kept away from the child? What’s the most extreme thing you’ve done in order to try and keep evil away?

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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.

The government has made efforts to remove the practise from rural culture but it has begun to resurface. There is the fear that the unmarried dead may return to haunt their family as lonely spirits.

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Should governments do more to stamp out believes like this? Or should they do less and leave the local cultures in tact?

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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.

Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche is believed to be the fifth incarnation of a revered Buddhist teacher by his followers and is known as Burongma.  He was arrived last year after rites in Lhasa and protest marches by nuns.

Phurbu Rinpoche speaks Chinese and was able to navigate the Chinese system so that he had a say in the appointment of his legal team.

One of the two lawyers defending him is Jiang Tianyong. Talking to The Times, Jiang addressed the allegation that an imitation pistol and 100 rounds of ammunition had been found in the tulku’s house.

Jiang said, “The living room of such a venerated monk is a public place with people coming and going every day. Someone could have put the weapons there. His wife has said she had never seen them before when cleaning the house.”

The lawyer, however, was not optimistic in the outcome of the case. He told The Times, “I doubt if the case will be dealt with fairly. But compared with similar cases, this has been the best handled. At least I met my client and talked to him.” He added that he feared that the court could hand down a heavy sentence.”

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Are you more optimistic than Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche’s lawyers? Do you think he’s had a fair trial and is now waiting for a fair verdict?

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