AN EXTREMING PAINFUL ANCIENT PRACTICE REVEALED BY THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY

This 11th century AD sculpture looks like an ordinary statue of Buddha. but … the reality was revealed a few years ago thanks to the idea of a group of researchers who subjected the statue to a CT scan and discovered that inside, there are the remains of a Buddhist monk engaged in the classic lotus position.

In the body of the cleric there are no longer organs, but ancient scrolls of texts in Chinese: the discovery, worthy of an Indiana Jones film, is by a group of researchers from the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort, not far from Utrecht, the Netherlands. .

According to Erik Bruijn, an expert in Buddhist art and culture and guest curator of the World Museum in Rotterdam, the body would belong to a Buddhist master named Liuquan of the Chinese School of Meditation, who died around 1100 AD.

According to some scholars, the monk did not self-humble as his organs were removed during the mummification and replaced with scrolls.

According to other opinions, he self-hummified himself to prepare for the afterlife and become the ” eternal Buddha ”

To do this he underwent an essential diet to eliminate fat followed by a total fast in which he could drink only a particular tea, poisonous in the long run that caused greater dehydration and intoxicated the body.

When he was at the end of his life, he was placed in a stone tomb not much larger than his body, which was equipped with an air tube and bell.

Never leaving his meditative posture, the monk rang the bell every day to let people know he was still alive.

Only when the sound of the bell stopped, he was considered dead and sealed the tomb that would be reopened only after 1000 days to see if the mummification had taken place.

To date, only twenty or so testimonies have come that attest to the success of this practice at the limit of human endurance: the few who have succeeded are venerated like the saints.

Photo credit:

Mummy inside of a Buddha statue – photo by M. Elsevier Stokmans

Examined with a CT scan – photo by Jan van Esch

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