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Researchers at ethnographic museum in Rotterdam examined the CT scan Buddha statue from China. It turned out that they were dealing with the mummified remains of a monk thousand years ago.

The statue depicts a Buddhist monk sitting in the lotus position. Tomography and endoscopy studies have shown that under a layer of paper pulp is the monk’s mummified body dating back to 1100 – gives ancient-origins.net service.

The researchers took samples of bone material for DNA testing. We have to deal with the process automumifikacji. The monks used the 1000 days by a special diet. They ate only nuts, seeds, and fruits and cultivated increased exercise to get rid of body fat. For the next 1000 days ate only bark and roots. At the end of this period, drank a poisonous brew of urushi tree that caused vomiting and dehydration, but also acted preservative, killing insects and bacteria after death.

At the end of his life, after six years of preparation, the monk would lock himself in his type of tomb, a size much larger than him and meditated until his death. He was breathing through a tube, and once a day run a small bell. The tube was removed when sitting in the lotus monk did not call again.

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After the death of the monk checked whether his body has mummification. In the case of “success” placed him in the temple and worshiped.

The statue comes from China and is traveling in European museums. It is now in the Natural History Museum in Budapest.