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Mummified Monk Found Inside 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue
An anonymous reader writes Using a CT scanner, scientists and hospital staff at the Meander Medical Center in the Netherlands have discovered the mummified body of a Chinese monk inside a statue of Buddha. The monk is believed to have lived around the year 1100. From the article: "Glowing through the statue's golden cast, the human skeleton is believed to belong to Buddhist master Liu Quan, a member of the Chinese Meditation School. To further investigate the mummy, the researchers took the statue to the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort and carried out an endoscopy and additional CT scans. They found out that Liu Quan's internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing. The museum speculates Liu Quan may have 'self-mummified' in order to become a 'living Buddha.'
He's just in a very deep state of meditation.
Like this guy: http://siberiantimes.com/other...
probably pining for the fjords.....
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I just saw this collection of pics of the same subject. It was quite interesting and thought I'd share. http://www.carapas.com/these-m...
It'd be pretty great if they could get those writings out intact and scan them. From what I've seen Buddhism is a waning religion, and is probably the only one that most people can't really speak against, since, you know, what has a Buddhist ever done to you?
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How do you self-mummified???
It starts by reading the TFA.
After which you'll wish that you didn't read the TFA.
Certainly not something for those who are even the slightest bit claustrophobic to attempt.
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He dedicated his body to his conviction, he personally suffered for what he believes is the path to a better life, he left this world in a peaceful and voluntary mean. He didn't bomb another religion, or shoot the infidels, or behead the non-believers. To each his own religion. Religions only become bad when they creeps up on others.
I hope the poor monk doesn't get hit with some drug-resistant bacterial infection...
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My wife's family is Buddhist, and none of them are anything like you describe.
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Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise. What makes religion so much worse than political or economic ideologies that cause just as much death and suffering?
It's "sow" as in seeds, by the way, not "sew' as in cloth.
That's not true at all, I have read on these very pages how all religion is utterly and irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. Now we're making exceptions?
PS if you think Buddhists are innocent of bombing, you really need to pick up a history book. Beheading, too.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
So it's like a Holy Buddhist Turducken?
1000 years before Intel, the advertising slogan "Monk inside!" was invented.
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To be fair, about 25% of the world population ends up marrying an Asian woman. So, yeah, it is kind of typical.
Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise.
It's not that ideologies are always harmful, so much as that acting without thinking can be harmful, and ideology discourages people from thinking things through for themselves.
If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others.
If, OTOH, people are blindly following dogma rather than engaging in rational thought.... well, often that isn't an immediate problem (either because the dogma is reasonably applicable to the situation at hand, or because the consequences of the decisions being made on auto-pilot are not too severe). But it does open the door for serious harm to occur, because people who aren't thinking are not able to quickly or easily detect or amend their mistakes.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.