Self Mummification
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a successful self-mummified monk
All across Asia, there have been over dozens of cases of self mummification. The most famous cases involve Japanese monks, who names the practice of self mummification, Sokushinbutsu.
Practice
Self mummification is a process practiced mostly by Japanese monks trying to reach Buddha status and consists of many years of trying to preserve oneself before death.
Self mummification however also happened in hina and India along with Japan.
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self mummification
Self Mummication
Process
- eating only a special diet of nuts and seeds for three years
- rigorous exercises that melted off their body fat
- ate bark and roots for the next three years and started drinking a poisonous tea
- drank this tea was that it killed off any maggots that might cause the body to decay after death
- lock himself in a very small, stone tomb while sitting in the lotus position
- For every day that he was in the hole he would ring the bell, the day that the bell stopped ringing, others would take out the tube and seal the tomb.
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Most people that would self mummify were Japanese monks trying to reach Buddha status and the ultimate level of enlightenment.
Why self
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self mummification
In a region of India know as, Spiti, a mummy was found in 1975. This region was hugely influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. The mummy, also known as Sangha Tenzin, was a 15th-century Buddhist monk.
another Buddhist master named Liuquan which means “Six Perfections”, who was a member of Chinese Meditation School. was found.
Sangha Tenzin
Liuquan
Cases
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Today, it is a taboo to mummify yourself. In fact, the practice is banned in Japan. If you attempt to mummify yourself today, you will be autopsied and buried. Your being will not be worshipped but, avoided.
