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Buddhist monk decides to disrobe and get married after sixteen years of monkhood. Filmed for over ten years. Summary

When Yuri Gagarin became the first man in Space, a young boy was looking up to the sky. Robert T. Edison did not suspect that his enthusiasm for space travels would lead him to the most dramatic decision of his life later on.Robert Edison was born and raised in Nottingham. He had always had the feeling of being a Buddhist and started to practice from early age. His teacher advised him to seek further guidance, leading Robert to a monastery in Thailand.

His plan to stay there for several months became a decade.His life was transformed when he decided to visit one of his pen-pals in Iceland. Where he found hundreds of Buddhists who had immigrated to this cold country in the north. He was asked to stay there to serve their religious needs. Suddenly Robert became the only Buddhist monk in Iceland wearing simple robes in the harsh Icelandic winter.Roberts life was transformed again when he travelled to Kazakstan (2000) to visit a space station where Yuri Gagarin had took of from. Robert had always been interested in space travels and that interest lead him to the surprise of his life. He fell in love with an aerobic instructor in Kazakstan, asked her to come with him to Iceland and marry him. That she did, and Robert resigned after sixteen years of monk-hood.

His marriage latest for five months. He separated and started to work as a security guard in a hospital. In few months Robert was transformed from a naïve monk to a normal � person. Encountering the challenge of wearing pants, paying bills, as well as dealing with the headaches from the opposite sex.His visit to the normal world � ended in May 2004 when he travelled to Thailand to become Dhammanando again.[1]

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