Buddha statue contains a MUMMIFIED BODY - shock skeleton discovery made by placing sculpture in hospital scanner
The mummified monk's organs had been swapped for paper manuscripts
M. Elsevier Stokmans
A nearly thousand year old mummy has been recently examined with a CT scan and an endoscope. A gastrointestinal and liver doctor took samples of yet unidentified material and examined the thoracic and abdominal cavities
A Chinese statue of a buddha has been found to contain the mummified body of a monk.
The discovery was made after the sculpture was taken to hospital by museum staff for a CT scan.
The body belonged to master Liuquan, a monk who lived around the year 1100 and was a member of the Chinese Meditation School.
The thousand-year-old artefact was examined in a CT scanning machine and with an endoscope.
Samples were also taken from the mummy’s abdominal cavities by a gastroenterologist.
"He made a spectacular discovery: at the place where once had been organs, he found, among all kinds of rotten material, paper scraps that were printed with ancient Chinese characters,” said a hospital spokesman.
The mummy is on display at an exhibition at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.
The finding follows the discovery of a 200-year-old mummified monk in Mongolia. Some argue that the monk is "not dead" but just in a deep meditative state.
A Chinese statue of a buddha has been found to contain the mummified body of a monk.
The discovery was made after the sculpture was taken to hospital by museum staff for a CT scan.
The body belonged to master Liuquan, a monk who lived around the year 1100 and was a member of the Chinese Meditation School.
The thousand-year-old artefact was examined in a CT scanning machine and with an endoscope.
Samples were also taken from the mummy’s abdominal cavities by a gastroenterologist.
"He made a spectacular discovery: at the place where once had been organs, he found, among all kinds of rotten material, paper scraps that were printed with ancient Chinese characters,” said a hospital spokesman.
The mummy is on display at an exhibition at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.
The finding follows the discovery of a 200-year-old mummified monk in Mongolia. Some argue that the monk is "not dead" but just in a deep meditative state.
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