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A Chinese mathematical genius who had won a gold medal in the International Maths Olympiad denied a full Scholarship to MIT, and chose to become a monk in a Buddhist Monastery

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Indiana Jones may have been inspired by American political scientist William Montgomery McGovern, who by age 30 had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery.

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1. The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia is Erdene Zuu Monastery, built in 1586.

2. Jimmy Stewart smuggled a mummified Yeti finger from a Buddhist monastery out of India by hiding it in his wife's lingerie case.

3. Bodhidharma. A Central Asian (Indian/Persian) Buddhist Monk who brought Chan Buddhism to China and initiated the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin kungfu.

4. Steve Jobs considered becoming a Buddhist monk at a monastery in Northern California rather than continuing with Apple

5. Wat Tham Krabok a temple established as a monastery in 1957. Over 100,000 heroin and opium addicts have since gone through the unique detox program, consisting of Buddhist meditation, Asian herbal supplementation, induced vomiting, and the consumption of a secret detoxification potion.

6. STIs and child sexual abuse are common occurrences in Buddhist monasteries.

7. My hometown (Carmel/Kent, NY) is home to a Buddhist Monastery that houses the largest statue of Buddha in the Western Hemisphere.