Georgia monk who lost leg in peace walk takes first steps since crash
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) MACON — Buddhist monk Bhante Dam Phommasan arrived in a wheelchair. Just as he was entering a vast, carpeted meeting hall for a speaking engagement at Mercer University, those escorting him stopped and reversed course.
They wheeled him 15 or so feet back to the hall’s main doors. There would, for Phommasan, soon be a grander entrance.
Four months earlier, in mid-November on the outskirts of Houston, his left leg was mangled when he was struck by an automobile during the widely publicized, 2,300-mile Texas-to-Washington, D.C. “Walk for Peace.”
Phommasan had joined his fellow monks on their easterly trek south of Dallas. His wounded leg was later amputated below the knee.
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