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.
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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