A Japanese Buddhist Monk, Shiounama has completed the 1000 day traditional endurance test. He had taken a vow to complete a sacred, thousand-day challenge, climbing Mount Hiei , a seven year piligramage to Kaihogyo. In this vow they had to walk climb every day, a tiresome undertaking, but among monks the Thousand Day Circumambulation is considered a kind of shortcut to enlightenment. Buddhists have been seeking more efficient ways to what’sknown as bodhi, or “waking […]