Marathon Monks - Japan
BackNovember 2004 The world's greatest athletes may well live on top of a sacred mountain in Japan. As part of their spiritual training, the monks run 84 km every day for over three months.
Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: January 23, 2008 at 3:29 am
Author: journeymanpictures
Length: 0:19:47
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Video Comments:
KungZoo (Sunday 19th of October 2008 09:47:40 AM)
Amazing. I wish I could quit being a salaryman, too, but don't think I would cut it as a marathon monk...
belladona001 (Friday 3rd of October 2008 04:56:13 AM)
what kind of monks are they? catholic monks or what? this is totally a different kind of monks i have heard of.
youcangetholdofjules (Thursday 9th of October 2008 02:56:33 AM)
Monks from the Tendai sect of Buddhism - A sect of the Mahayana tradition that arrived in Japan around 930AD
minotauro4life (Saturday 6th of September 2008 05:16:46 PM)
Unbelievable
darkconjure (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 01:04:02 AM)
It's nice to see videos like this, it helps encourage to try more "impossible" things.
CherryBlossomskt (Sunday 20th of July 2008 12:02:52 PM)
thanks alot. your vids allow me to learn so much about so many different cultures.
TAKENnameARGH (Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 07:29:34 AM)
That Sakai was part of Unit 731?
Disgusting. He should be in jail.