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Lama Drukpa Kunley is one of the strangest religious and historical characters in the exotic land of Bhutan.
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One of the great religious teachers and holy men, Drukpa Kunley, is known all over Bhutan as �The Divine Madman�. Eccentric and only one of his kinds, Drukpa Kunley was born in Tibet in 1455. There are many legends associated to him that talk of various miracles and his outlandish behavior.
He is believed to have been an extremely precocious child who could remember all of his previous incarnations vividly. He became disillusioned with the world when his father was killed in a family feud and renounced it forever, turning to a religious life and becoming a monk.
However, it seems he did not find peace in monkshood and gave up his robes in his early twenties.
He lived as a mendicant, practiced spiritual arts and magic and wandered all ov