Lama Drukpa, Demon-Thwacking Maverick Saint of Bhutan

Bhutan is a strange country. So far down the slope of income per capita that it slaloms into the economically chthonic, Bhutan's government has stopped reporting on Gross Domestic Product and instead substituted a system of their own: Gross Domestic Happiness. But the people are happy being poor... so happy that the King is practically begging for a democracy to take power from them.

What's the source of so much happiness? The linked article won't necessarily give you the complete answer, but I don't think Bhutan's completely awesome patron saint can be ruled out of the equation:

Here, every building is built in a handsome, 16th-century style; whitewashed and adorned with intricately carved wooden windows and door frames. Many are decorated with images of phalluses — a legacy of Bhutan's maverick saint, Lama Drupka Kinley, who, legend has it, hit errant demons over the head with his penis to turn them into protective deities.

Lama Drupka has clearly concussed the Demon Depression with his enormous, purple cosh-sized phallus! Tour Bhutan!

Poll may make Bhutan grossly nationally unhappy [The Age]