In a monastery in northern India, thinly clad Tibetan monks sat quietly in a room where the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a yoga technique known as g Tum-mo, they entered a state of deep meditation. Other monks soaked 3-by-6-foot sheets in cold water (49 degrees) and placed them over the meditators’ shoulders. For untrained people, such frigid wrappings would produce uncontrolled shivering.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html
I heard stories out of Siberia as well. There were these three nuns that were stripped of their clothing and thrown out into the minus degree temperature of their Siberian barracks. They were expected to die out there, with freezing temperatures of minus 30 and (not including a wind chill factor), exposed skin freezes in less than one minute.
Their prison guards came out after an hour expecting to be dragging in their stone cold bodies. Instead, they found the women linked together, singing hymns. The snow was melted in a diameter of 10 feet.
These were Catholic nuns.
What kind of help would you suggest? I believe other religions can help, but how is help needed?
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I heard stories out of Siberia as well. There were these three nuns that were stripped of their clothing and thrown out into the minus degree temperature of their Siberian barracks. They were expected to die out there, with freezing temperatures of minus 30 and (not including a wind chill factor), exposed skin freezes in less than one minute.
Their prison guards came out after an hour expecting to be dragging in their stone cold bodies. Instead, they found the women linked together, singing hymns. The snow was melted in a diameter of 10 feet.
These were Catholic nuns.
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