Taoist Guru Dies From Steaming Ritual

Spiritual guru boils himself alive trying to prove his ‘physical endurance’ to followers

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Originally Posted by Metro UK Lim Ba, a 65-year-old Taoist guru, climbed inside the large steel capsule – heated on boiling water – on Monday at 10pm, outside the Kuala Sanglang Qinglong temple in Ayer Tawar, Malaysia. He apparently pulled the stunt to show off his phsyical endurance to his followers, and had managed to pull it off a number of times before. However, after 30 minutes the devotees heard frantic banging coming from inside the pan. By the time they managed to get him out, he was unconscious. Lim was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead of a heart attack soon afterwards. He had also suffered second-degree burns. ‘The sounds coming from inside the wok were not regular and not normal so we knew there was something wrong,’ his son said...

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