When scanning a thousand-year-old monk mummy, his brain looked like a living person
The monks of Dinghui Monastery in Vuan, which is located in Hebei Province in the north of China, wished to scan the mummy of Tsa Xian, stored here and revered. Recently it was even gilded as a sign of the highest respect.
What moved the monks, it is unknown - perhaps curiosity. Like, what's inside? But doctors readily agreed. They brought equipment to the temple and made a mummy computer tomography.
Everyone was shocked-doctors, monks, journalists and pilgrims who came to gaze at the research. Tomography revealed that the bones, joints and teeth of 1000-year-old Tsya Xian as a living one. Unchanged preserved and the brain.
Master Tsy Hsien was originally from India, at the end of the first millennium AD he went to China to preach and spread Buddhism. In what greatly succeeded, I acquired many followers and disciples, who made the mummy of him after death, naturally.
The mummy was considered lost until it was found hidden in a cave in the 70s of the last century.
Recently, the mummy was gilded to look richer.
How the tissues of the mummies of Buddhist monks are preserved for centuries in a "healthy" state is not known. And Buddhists believe that they are - these monks - and not mummies at all. Because they did not die, but fell into a hibernation - they entered the state of samadhi. From which one day they can go out.
That's extremely interesting. There's a lot of research suggesting monks alter the way their body ages, with meditation. I would have liked a source for this post though, so I could read a bit more about it :).