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Mongolian in "Earth's Elders" PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 January 2006
Damchaagiin Gendendarjaa
Damchaagiin Gendendarjaa
Jerry Freedman is a famous photo correspondent who travelled around the world over 200 countries before writing his book "Earth's Elders: The Wisdom of the World's Oldest People."

Two years ago when he came Mongolia, he met the 106 years old monk Gendendarjaa Damchaa. Venerable Gendendarjaa was born in Southgobi province and at the age of 6, he started to study in Gandan Monastery.

And what made him get so old? "From my young time, I used to nave a lot of milk and rice, but only a litlle bit a meat for meals" the old man said to Jerry Freedman.

(image taken from Earth's Elders Foundation)

Statesman.com reports:
Friedman was in awe the next morning when he met Damchaagiin Gendendarjaa, a 110-year-old Tibetan Buddhist lama: He had earned a doctorate in theology at age 106. He had all his teeth. He had never seen a doctor, yet mild arthritis in his lower back was his only ailment.

"He was the holiest person I've ever been in the presence of," Friedman recalled of his February 2003 trip. "It's hard to describe, other than he had a certain countenance I had never experienced before."

The lama was one of more than 50 "supercentenarians" — people at least 110 years old — whom Friedman interviewed and photographed for a book, "Earth's Elders: The Wisdom of the World's Oldest People."



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1. Elle Randall
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-15 04:05:42, IP: 24.62.41.108
Mr. Friedman, 
I found your website through a newspaper article. I, too am an artist and at age 75 took up welding to further my sculpting. 
 
i don't buy into what you are "supposed " to do as you age. Don't let anyone put you in to a box because of aging. 
 
Thank you for your site.[B]null[/B]

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