I don't know if Mother Teresa is a saint but I 've long heard of St. Anne whose church in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia attracts over 100,000 pilgrims from Malaysia and neighbouring countries like Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia each year during its annual celebration of the feast of St Anne. If Mother Teresa isn't a saint yet, she can be one in five steps; which according to BBC are: waiting for at least five years after death, becoming a servant of God, showing proof of a life of heroic virtue, verified miracles and finally Canonization. Don't really understand what that means but that really makes me wonder about how Buddhists go about determining their bodhisattvas; people who are able to reach nirvana but delay doing so through compassion for suffering beings. Do they do so in 5 simple steps? Do they have a body to decide who is and who is not a bodhisattva?
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