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A CT scan on the ancient statue of Buddha revealed a mummified monk.
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Between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death
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An art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.
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Japanese monks mummified themselves while still alive. The practice required the mummifying monk to eat only nuts, buds, and roots for at least three years. When death was near his disciples would put him into a box at the bottom of pit, pack charcoal around the box and bury their master alive.
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A Buddha statue was found to contain a mummified monk. At the time, such monks believed "self-mummification" was the path to enlightenment and reverence. Monks would starve themselves for a decade, be sealed inside a statue, and subsist on a minimal diet until death.
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CT-scan of a statue of sitting Buddha revealed the body of a 1000 years old mummified monk inside it. It was discovered when a private buyer brought the statue to an expert for restoration. As per experts, the monk was probably "self Mummified" to prepare himself for life after death
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Some Buddhist monks would self-mummify themselves.
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At least 17 Japanese monks have managed to mummify themselves through a careful diet over a period of 1000 days, which has the effect of both hastening death, and preserving them.
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A specific subset of Taoist monks self mummified themselves by drinking poison teas.
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Buddhist monk may have volunteered to be mummified in a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue
