World market players are not ready to pull the covers up over their heads and stay in bed, behavior that will ensure that the prophecy of impending immolation is fulfilled.
This wave of revolution was triggered by the self-immolation of a vegetable peddler in Tunisia who set himself on fire after having his vegetable cart confiscated and being publicly humiliated by the authorities.
In Buddhism, the subject of self-immolation is controversial, said Robert Sharf, the chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
With no hint of irony he says people shouldn't glorify the act of self-immolation and "should stop adding fuel to the fire".
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.
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Reports of self-immolation in the ultra-conservative kingdom are rare.
Just along the corridor from where Hosni's terrible throat injuries were being dressed - many victims of self-immolation suffer agonising lung and internal chest injuries - another victim had been brought in and was fighting for his life.
If someone had predicted six months ago that the self-immolation of a Tunisian merchant would lead to a domino effect of established Middle Eastern regimes collapsing in Tunisia and Egypt, and wobbling in Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and Yemen, we would have written him off as a conspiracy theorist.
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Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?
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Local politicians reacted with horror to news of the self-immolation, adding that only a formal inquest could perhaps establish the man's true motives.
Understandably, many Republicans fear that a tough primary campaign will weaken their eventual nominee while the Administration is finding it hard to hide how much it has enjoyed the spectacle of Republican self-immolation.
It said it was the first documented case of a triple self-immolation.
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After Tuesday's alleged immolation, an irate crowd of more than 100 people, including Buddhist monks, gathered outside a police station demanding that the alleged attacker be handed over, said a local politician, Sai Myint Maung.
Until now, Polyzonis's self-immolation was the most vivid image of a singular public act of protest in a country that's been shaken by anti-austerity violence.
His suicide by self-immolation (bunshin) at the age of 22 is widely regarded as the "single spark" that fired the country's labor movement.
The tragic death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, by self-immolation, brought about a grassroots political movement among Tunisians that effectively overthrew the country's authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
And it was this part of the Lotus Sutra that Vietnamese monks and nuns pointed to when it came to self-immolation in the 1960s.
As if to celebrate some unprecedented triumph in the agricultural sphere, of the sort that leads to an undreamed-of surplus, the survivors (and, one sometimes suspects, the sick and wounded) of the nation's turkey-camps are rounded up and executed for a second great annual immolation.
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Then the self-immolation by Tunisian street vendor who had his vegetable cart confiscated by the government sparked a national uprising of all the others who were frustrated.
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