ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Buddhist monk who was hit by a car during the Walk for Peace in November is back home in metro Atlanta – just in time for the other monks to visit him while passing through Gwinnett county.
On Nov. 11, Phra-Ajarnh Maha Dam Phommasan was walking for peace with a group of other Buddhist monks on the side of the road about 30 miles east of Houston, Texas, when a car slammed into the monks’ escort vehicle, which then hit Phommasan.
“At the moment when I was hit I feel myself sliding across the ground, but with Buddhist belief, we believe that when we’re conscious of our awareness when we are about to die, it eliminates the chance of us going to hell and gives us a more direct route into heaven and nirvana,” he said…