Tomography of a relic stored in a Chinese monastery brought amazing results
The monks of the Dinghui Monastery in Wuang, located in Hebei province in northern China, wanted to scan the revered mummy of Master Tzu Xian that is kept here. Recently it was even gilded as a sign of the highest respect.
The tomography of the mummy was done, as they say, at home - right in the monastery
What motivated the monks is unknown - perhaps curiosity. Like, what's inside? But the doctors readily agreed. Recently - on July 8, 2017 - they brought equipment to the temple and made the mummy a computed tomography. Everyone was shocked - doctors, monks, journalists, and pilgrims who had gathered to watch the research. The tomography revealed that the bones, joints and teeth of the 1000-year-old Qi Xian were as if they were alive. The brain also remained unchanged.
- An incredible sight! - this is how Dr. Wu Yongqing, who performed the scan, described what he saw.
Doctors and monks are shocked: the mummy is alive
Scans showing the good condition of the bones of the mummy and her brain
Master Tsi Xian was originally from India, at the end of the first millennium AD he went to China to preach and spread Buddhism. In what he greatly succeeded, he acquired numerous followers and students, who made a mummy out of him - after death, of course.
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The mummy was considered lost until it was found hidden in a cave in the 70s of the last century.
The mummy was recently gilded to make it look richer
Left: this is how the mummy looked before, right: now it is like this - gilded
How the tissues of the mummies of Buddhist monks have been preserved in a "healthy" state for centuries is not known. Science does not know. And Buddhists believe that they are - these monks - and not mummies at all. Because they did not die, but fell into hibernation - they entered the state of samadhi. From which one day they may come out.
BTW
The current "miracle" is not the only and not the first. Five years ago, a scan revealed a 1000-year-old mummy inside a statue of Buddha. On the research undertaken by Dutch and German specialists.
Inside this statue is a mummy
Three years ago, a well-preserved 200-year-old mummified body of a Buddhist monk was discovered in Mongolia.
200 year old mummy of a Mongolian monk
We also have our own miracle in Buryatia - the so-called "Imperishable Lama" - Khambo-Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov. He died in 1927, now he is in the monastery in the form of a mummy - he sits as if alive in Tsogchen-dugan in the lotus position under a glass cover.
Our imperishable lama
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY