"To our surprise, we found [that m]onastic Tibetan Buddhists showed significantly greater fear of death than any other group."
@Meaningness, perhaps you have some thoughts on this?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12590/abstract …
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(fwiw, having lived in a Hindu monastery for some time, this explanation tallies with my experience of the difference between novices and "full" monks in that setting)
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(or, rather, the newer novices)
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Self-selection seems like a simpler explanation. What kind of person/mind/set of values decides to go live in a monastery?
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