In Amersfoort, Holland, the Meander Medical Centre was asked in September, 2014, to run some tests and checkups on a patient. Normally, that would not be of interest to anyone save that patient and his/her family, but this patients happened to be 1,000 years of age. Well into the Medicare years...
What had happened was, some researchers brought a thousand-year-old Buddha statue from a museum to the hospital for a CT scan. They found out that within the gold-painted figure was a mummy of an actual Buddhist monk.
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| CT scan came back nice! |
Analysis showed that all the major organs, save the heart, were removed from the body prior to mummification way back then, and then the monk's organs were replaced with scraps of paper printed with Chinese letters and symbols that have not all been translated.
The belief is that the body is that of Buddhist master Liuquan, who died around the year A.D. 1100. He was a member of the Chinese Meditation School. The Drents Museum in Holland has been exploring the possibility that the monks self-mummified in an attempt to turn himself into a "living Buddha."
It's nice to see that the self-improvement trend didn't just start the other day.
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