A very touching story.
The Cambodian family who believe a calf is reincarnation of beloved husband and father

When 74-year-old widow Khim Hang spotted a calf near her home, she knew it was her reincarnated husband Tol Khut.
By David Sim
July 20, 2017
When 74-year-old widow Khim Hang spotted a calf near her home, she knew it was her reincarnated husband Tol Khut, a farmer who died unexpectedly just over a year ago in Cambodia's northeastern Kratie Province. The calf now spends nights inside the family home, with the TV on in the background to keep him entertained – just as Tol Khut would have liked.

"I believe that he (the calf) is my husband because whatever he does when he goes upstairs... it is in exactly the same way as he (my husband) did when he was alive," she told Reuters. "When I went to see a medium, his soul came in and said 'I am your husband'. Then I noted that he (the calf) licked my hair, then my neck, then kissed me so that really made me believe that he is my husband," she added.

She is not the only one to hold this belief – so too do her seven children and her neighbours. Her son, Tol Vandy, for example, says the calf only licks the arms of his relatives. Her neighbour, Lim Rith, says it is clear that the calf "loves his children" when you see his behaviour in person.

Inside the wooden stilted house, the calf is fed, washed and put to bed, with a long fluffy pillow propped up along his back. He lies there from 6pm to 10am, then walks back down the stairs to graze on the grass or drink his mother's milk.

Khim Hang says the new familial addition is here to stay; "I will keep him and take care of him for my entire life," she said, adding that her children had been instructed to look after him if she dies earlier than he does, and to give him a human funeral ceremony upon his death.

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why was he not reborn as a human?

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:04 pm why was he not reborn as a human?

Maybe this is the downside to the topside?

"why was he not reborn as a human?"

In order to have a story about a lot of bull.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:04 pm why was he not reborn as a human?

Animal realm:
Animal birth is seen as the result of past sins, and one expiates these sins through suffering in animal form (being hunted, worked, driven, slaughtered, etc.), often for thousands of consecutive births (as a dog, pig, dung beetle, etc.). Animal behavior is also run by instinct, which means that animals cannot generate good karma, they are simply working off the bad. This suffering and lack of control make birth as an animal undesirable. The conviction that animals are sentient beings also underlies the prohibition on intentionally killing anything, which goes back to the Buddha’s earliest teaching

I suppose her husband spent a lot of time wandering on all fours, regurgitating into his mouth and leaving big soggy shits on the rug.

Bumping up this old thread from last year because I saw that Tol Khut, the husband reincarnated as a calf, is in the news again. I thought, bloody hell not another one, but no, it's the same husband except that he's grown a bit.

2017
2018



This is probably a nice little earner and the family are obviously doing well out of it. Good for them.

He's going to wish he came back as a bird when they cut his balls off.

cptrelentless wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:00 pm I suppose her husband spent a lot of time wandering on all fours, regurgitating into his mouth and leaving big soggy shits on the rug.

Well, he was 74.

I want to be reborn as a reusable condom !