{"id":770,"date":"2009-04-21T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/leaving-your-mark.html"},"modified":"2009-04-21T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T08:17:00","slug":"leaving-your-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/leaving-your-mark.html","title":{"rendered":"Leaving your mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How deep is your faith?  Take a look at these remarkable pictures of the impact that a Buddhist monk has had on his small corner of the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offbeatearth.com\/leaving-your-mark\/\">the report<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in  Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result of performing his prayers up to 3000 times a day. Now that he is 70, he says that he has greatly reduced his quantity of prayers to 1,000 times each day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Se25yKA9pPI\/AAAAAAAAFc0\/eCT0b3_6yFs\/s1600-h\/overlay-500x331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 265px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Se25yKA9pPI\/AAAAAAAAFc0\/eCT0b3_6yFs\/s400\/overlay-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The report goes on: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The footprints have become a source of inspiration to younger monks at the temple. \u201cEvery day I come here and every day I look at the piece of wood, and it has inspired me to continue to make the footprints myself,\u201d Genden Darji, a 29 year-old monk in the monastery, notes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Se269pgeBUI\/AAAAAAAAFdE\/rPGewZavOgs\/s1600-h\/praying-500x331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 265px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Se269pgeBUI\/AAAAAAAAFdE\/rPGewZavOgs\/s400\/praying-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><b>PHOTOS:<\/b>  <i>by Reuters<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How deep is your faith? 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