What they found inside the statue of Buddha, stunned the scientific world! This is not every day you see ...

Specialists of the main hospital in the city of Amersfoort (Netherlands) recently conducted a survey, perhaps the oldest of the client's history. Computed tomography showed - in a thousand-year statue of Buddha is really the human body! Mummified remains of the monk, who took the lotus position, found himself in a perfect statue of the receptacle. According to Eric Bruijn, world-renowned expert in the field of Buddhist culture and art, the body belongs to the legendary master Liu Chuan, the representative of the Chinese school of meditation.

Specialist gastroenterologist who participated in the survey found that domestic authorities have no mummy. Instead, he found a number of pieces of paper with ancient Chinese characters. Scientists hope that their contents could be included along with the results of the study in a forthcoming monograph on the ancient monk. It is worth noting the critical importance of the findings. Liu Quan's body - the only example of Chinese Buddhist mummies available for study in the West. Who knows what other discoveries are waiting for scientists?



This mummy is so much interest not only because of his more than respectable age, but also by a special method samomumifikatsii, have long been used by Chinese monks. For this first thousand days Buddhist practiced special diet of nuts and grains, relieving your body of fat reserves. The next thousand days monk ate bark and roots. By the end of this period, the devotee started drinking special tea, which is prepared from the sap of the Japanese lacquer tree. With the help of the monk did his flesh poisonous to insects and bacteria, and also significantly reduces the amount of fluid in your own body.

In the last step of the way of the monk, no longer resembling a living skeleton, immured in a stone niche in the lotus position with an air tube and a bell. Every day a monk hit the bell, announcing that is still alive. When he stopped to give signals, the tube was removed and the niche is sealed completely. Even after a thousand days niche opened again in order to check whether the body was the mummy of a monk. However, to reach such a state of only a handful of the hundreds who decided to like.

Now Buddha statue is located in Budapest. She exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in Hungary, where the end of May it will be able to see anyone.

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