Mummy in the statue – Republic

AFP

The Chinese Buddha statue 900 years before scientists from Drents Museum in Assen Dutch discovered .. . mummy monk.

“Outside the monument looks like a big statue of Buddha,” the museum staff wrote in a statement. “X-rays revealed a statue that is placed inside the mummy of a Buddhist monk who lived around 1100.

The researchers speculate that the gold coating of the statue are probably hidden remains of a Chinese master Liu Quan. The researchers studied the statue in the Meander Medical Centre in Amersfoort. Endoscopic conducted and additional scanning with CT scanner. It turned out that Liu Quan internal organs were removed and replaced with sheets covered with Chinese writing.

The museum’s employees have speculated that Liu Quan could undergo automumifikacji – an ancient Buddhist practice, consisting of starvation in such a way that the delay death were natural mummification.

practiced mainly in Japan was a long-standing process automumifikacja. In the first stage required the monk observe a strict diet and strenuous exercise for a thousand days. Components of the diet were only nuts and seeds. For the next 1000 days monk ate bark and roots. At the end of this period, the monk began to drink the infusion of sumac juice meadow. (From the bark of the tree is obtained lake).

A decoction of sumac cause heavy vomiting and a rapid loss of body fluids. Body was toxic and after his death was to be resistant to bacteria and insects.

During the reign of the monk was placed in the lotus position in a stone tomb, not much bigger than his body. The grave was equipped with the air supply pipe and the bell, which notify its daily monk was still alive. When the bell stopped removed the tube and sealed with grave. After another thousand days tomb opened and checked whether the mummification was successful. If so, the monk considered the Buddha, and was exposed to view in the nearest temple.

Now the mummy went to the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest, where it will remain until May, and Dutch scientists wonder why and when the bodies were removed monk and replaced the internal scripts.