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Dutch scientists discovered a mummy in a Chinese Buddha statue which is about a thousand years old. Researchers consider it to be the body of a deceased monk.
Computed tomography and endoscopy helped to make the discovery. statues. The remains are believed to belong to Lee Kwan, who was master of the Chinese school of meditation. In the mummy itself were discovered scraps of paper scribbled with old hieroglyphs.
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Self-mutation, which was considered a way to help turn into a “living Buddha” and go to Nirvana, practiced some monks. Such mummies are not dead to Buddhists in the usual understanding of death.
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To perform this ritual, monks, in addition to traditional practitioner, observed a special post. During it, the volume consumed food decreased, nutrition became endogenous.
For example, Japanese masters during such a post for a thousand days ate seeds, nuts and water, then another thousand days – roots, pine bark and special tea that was made from varnish wood and contained urushiol, a toxic substance.
After this, the monk was walled up in a stone tomb, where he entered into the last meditation in his life.
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