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Duminda Ratnayake
A Sri Lankan boy who from the age of three said he had been a chief monk at the Asgiriya temple in Kandy, behaved like a monk and chanted Pali verses; his statements best fitted Gunnepana Saranankara, abbot from 1921 to 1929, whom he later picked out in an old photograph.
Ratana Wongsombat
A Bangkok girl who at fourteen months showed an adult's knowledge of Buddhist worship at Wat Mahathat and said she had been Kim Lan, a wealthy laywoman who had meditated there and died after an operation in Sri Racha in 1962.