Magical spells are a booming business in Myanmar

is just 26, but he has a commanding presence. In his home in a suburb of Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, he sits cross-legged on the floor in front of a shrine festooned with tea lights, flowers and magical diagrams. His family and students gather round and listen intently as he explains how he acquired his powers, among them the ability to cure illnesses, boost profits and repel knife-wielding assailants .

Mr Min Kyaw Thein is one of a growing number of devout Burmese Buddhists striving to master occult techniques. Interest in magic has soared in Myanmar over the past few years, says Thomas Patton, author of “The Buddha’s Wizards”. For centuries many Buddhists have believed that extreme piety can confer special powers. Supernatural hermits, after all, help the Buddha himself in the scriptures.

Their appeal lies in their ability to manipulate the physical world. The greatest wizards can apparently fly, turn base metals into gold and attain immortality—all handy skills. Even the middling ones claim useful powers. Clients come to Saw Lwin, an impishwith a ruff of brown hair, to perk up their profits, make them more attractive, banish evil spirits and remove tumours.

why the evil eye? Very strange

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Caught the infection from your editors who seem pretty adept at magical thinking?

Ya its called summing demons u ass

The Wuhan Virus reminds me of a spell casted by an Ancient Chinese Wizard or The Spirit of Rage as it witnesses the torture of Spirits. To think Tigers are now being infected makes me think of the tigers held in Chinese cages for skinning...alive.

It shouldn't have to come to people relying on mystical things in desperation. How fucked does your healthcare have to be for.magic to be more popular. Honestly it's sickening. They shouldn't have to be doing this.

MAGIC DOES NOT NOT WORK. NOW YOU SEE IT NOW YOU DONT

Are you serious?

is this a shit news

We can fabricate gold easily. What's the big deal about gold?

Whenever there’s a crisis, there’s opportunity

Documents talk about the Tibetan Buddhism being like that, not Buddhism as a whole Lamaism is a sect

While 🇮🇳 India is in lockdown, you guys should have given free access to all.. This would have been the best way to get more people subscribe to you once lockdown is over. ThinkingOutLoud 21daylockdown marketingstrategy

There is nothing new under the Sun

Sounds like King Midas got a sniff o somethin white if you know what I mean

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