{"id":5192,"date":"2017-09-17T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2017-09-17T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T16:47:21","slug":"cat-scan-reveals-buddha-statue-contains-a-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cat-scan-reveals-buddha-statue-contains-a-mummy\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT Scan Reveals Buddha Statue Contains a Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists found the unthinkable a few months ago when they examined a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue from China: it contained a mummified monk who apparently died during meditation.<\/p>\n

The mummy was discovered in a cavity inside the statue after a private buyer took it to an expert for restoration, according to\u00a0CNN. It\u2019s not clear when the statue was taken out of China.<\/p>\n

A team of researchers did a CT scan on the statue and found the mummy. They noted that the mummy\u2019s organs had gone missing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe thought it would be lung tissue, but instead we found little scraps of paper covered with Chinese characters,\u201d said Vincent van Vilsteren, a curator with Drents Museum, as per\u00a0CNN.<\/div>\n
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The mummy was found sitting on a bundle of cloth that was covered in Chinese writing. They found out that the mummy was a Buddhist monk named Liuquan.<\/p>\n

But how he was mummified\u00a0is somewhat of a mystery. He\u00a0may have gone\u00a0through the practice of self-mummification, popular in Japan, China, Thailand over 1,000 years ago. The remains may have deteriorated and later been placed\u00a0inside a statue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not uncommon for monks to practice self-mummification, but to find a mummified monk inside a statue is really extraordinary,\u201d Wilfrid Rosendahl, a German palaeontologist who led the research, told the\u00a0Telegraph. \u201cIt\u2019s the only known example in the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUsing a CAT scan, we saw that there was a perfectly preserved body with skin and muscles inside the statue. It\u2019s a complete mummy, not just a skeleton. He was aged between 30 and 50.\u201d<\/p>\n

The monk was found sitting in the lotus position, researchers added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe suspect that for the first 200 years, the mummy was exposed and worshiped in a Buddhist temple in China\u2026 only in the 14th century did they do all the work to transform it into a nice statue,\u201d added van Vilsteren.<\/p>\n

Rosendahl said the monk likely died in the process of self-mummifcation.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the last weeks he would have started eating less food and drinking only water. Eventually he would have gone into a trance, stopped breathing, and died. He basically starved himself to death,\u201d Rosendahl said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists found the unthinkable a few months ago when they examined a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue from China: it contained a mummified monk who apparently died during meditation. The mummy was discovered in a cavity inside the statue after a private buyer took it to an expert for restoration, according to\u00a0CNN. It\u2019s not clear when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,315,87],"tags":[375,369,370],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-top-stories","category-world","tag-mystery","tag-top-stories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}