In the fall of 2024, Russian -speaking blogs became popular about a video about a man who is called a living Buddha for extraordinary longevity. We figured out whether it is true.
The video tells about an unusual person: it is argued that he is 198 years old, he weighs 11.5 kg and from old age his skin began to degrade and whiten, and his hands were drying out. In addition, he never worked and never touched women, and every morning begins with meditation. As the creators of the video say, local residents call him a living Buddha, worship him and believe that he is a celestial, descending to the ground. This video gained 7.2 million views in "VKontakte"And 2.5 million in Facebook. In addition, it is popular and in Instagram.
The video consists of fragments of obviously stock videos and conversations of a journalist with a certain person with a long white beard, atrophied hands and spots Vitiligo On the skin. We do not hear their remarks, the sound path consists only of the orders of the text in Russian. In addition, at the beginning of the video we are shown a photograph of a very old person in an orange knitted hat. He does not have a beard, and otherwise he does not look like a man who is dedicated to most of the video.
With the help of a reverse search for the images “verified” it found out that this photo depicts Luan PHO YA, a Buddhist monk from Thailand, Disappearing In 2022 at the age of 109. As for the second character of the video, we found a video about him with the original voice acting Reddit. Unfortunately, the video and the post accompanying it does not say exactly where the shooting took place, but the conversation in the frame is conducted at Urda, one of the two official languages of Pakistan. Based on this, it can be assumed that the video was most likely to be shot either in this country, or in neighboring Afghanistan, where Urdu is also common.
The video does not say anything about the age of the hero-only that, despite the extremely constrained life circumstances and disability (his atrophied hands can indicate a polio transferred), he lives a more or less complete life and does not lose heart. In addition, he is a Muslim - in the frame is demonstrated how he does prayer (Russian voice acting at this time talks about meditation). At the end, the presenter calls on the audience to help such people. This video became the basis for a meme closed in Tiktok In the spring 2024 years (in Russian -speaking social networks, this meme has not received much distribution).
“Verified” failed to find out for which particular television channel or Internet project a video was shot. Using a person recognition service Pimeyes We discovered a lot of reports with the participation of the same presenter (his name is not indicated) on the website of the British charity organization Orphan CareBut we did not find this specific video there.
According to data, a verified organization Longevique and the recorded book of Guinness Records, the oldest man in the world at the time of writing this analysis is the Brazilian nun In Canabarro Lucaswho was 116 years old on June 8, 2024. According to Longevique, the title of man who has lived the longest life in the history of observations belongs to the Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Kalmanwho lived 122 years and 164 days. She died on August 4, 1997, and since then no one has broken her record of longevity.
Thus, the viral video shows us two different people. One of them was a Buddhist long-life monk (although not 198 years old), but died in 2022. We do not know anything about the age of the second, but in the original video it was said only about his disability. There is no reliable information about the existence (both at the moment and in the past) of a person who has lived 198 years. The verified record of longevity belongs to Jeanne Louise Kalman, who lived 122 years.
Photo on the cover: frame from a viral video. Source: VKontakte screenshot
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