Vend Vahindra (1883-1962) was a perennial Estonian Buddhist who respected our native maausk, Taara, Jesus and Confucious. He called upon Genghis Khan to establish theocratic Pan-Baltic state along with Finno-Ugrians and remove all Slavs, Germans and Anglos (in Minecraft). 1/6

During his youth, he lived with a Prince E. Ukhtomsky, a Buddhist poet, and also met with Ungern von Sternberg in St Petersburg. Vahindra converted to Buddhism and a year later he ventured to Buryatia, Mongolia, and Urga. There he met with the XIII Dalai Lama and Ja Lama (2/6)

He became a monk in Russia and a representative in the Buddhist council. In the 1920s, newly established Estonian government denied entry to his homeland for religious reasons, thus he had to take Latvian citizenship. (3/6)

A tragic display, considering how he gathered 10 000 monks to fast 48 hours to support the War for Estonian and Latvian independence (in his opinion, that was the cornerstone of our statehood). In 1926 he participated in a marathon and got a 3rd place... not bad for a vegan (4/6)

Vahindra was known in Estonia as an anti-semite, eccentric weirdo and a religious nut, earning him a title "Barefeet Tõnison" and mockery from the press. He claimed to be a Buddhist "archbishop" of the Baltics, a more preferable title which was accepted by Burman monks (5/6)

He died in 1962 Burma and was declared as a bodhisattva - such was the life of first Estonian Buddhist monk, Vend Vahindra, Karl Tõnisson or Kārlis Tennisons.