I leaned this yesterday its hella interesting. Living buddhas (Sokushinbutsu) refer to the bodies of Buddhist monks and nuns that remain incorrupt, without any traces of deliberate mummification. This process begans by eating a extremely low calorie diet for 1,000 days or so. Once the person is emaciated the second phase of drinking a poisonous tea daily begans. This is done in a attempt to leave the body so toxic that not even maggots will eat the dead body. It is also thought that it begans mummification from the inside out. Once on the brink of death the person is placed in a enclosed chamber only large enough to sit in lotus position with only a bell and a opening for are the size of a drinking straw for air. When the bell is no longer heard the chamber is sealed for three years if the chamber is opened and the person is mummified they are now a living Buddha. If not they receive a normal burial, hundreds have tried only 27 or so where successful.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:49:12 +0000
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