According to a report from The Times of India (thanks VG247), Buddhist leader Karmapa Lama Trinley Dorje likes to expunge inner by playing violent PlayStation games.

Apparently, he is the only Buddhist leader whom the Chinese approve of, and he says "The aggression that comes out in the video game satiates whatever desire I might have to express that feeling. For me, that's very skilful because when I do that I don't have to go and hit anyone over the head."

The leader also believes games can act as a form of therapy. "I view video games as something of an emotional therapy, a mundane level of emotional therapy for me, Dorje explained.

"We all have emotions whether we're Buddhist practitioners or not, all of us have emotions, happy emotions, sad emotions, displeased emotions and we need to figure out a way to deal with them when they arise."

By Luke Guttridge