Mummified Buddhist monk 'still alive after 200 years and is nearly a Buddha'

[CoffeeAhSoh]

IB TimesBy Dominic Gover | IB Times – Wed, Feb 4, 2015

IB Times/Dominic Gover - Mummified Buddhist monk found in Mongolia is 'still alive,' claims professor



A 200-year-old Buddhist monk found mummified in Mongolia "is still alive" and nearing a

state of Nirvana, it has been claimed.

According to an expert on Buddhism, the lotus position in which the body was found

indicates the mummy is still in a heightened spiritual meditation called "tukdam".

That is very close to Nirvana, which according to Buddhist beliefs, is the highest possible

state achievable when the physical body dissolves.

Profesor Ganhugiyn Purevbata of Ulaanbaatar Buddhist University in Mongolia, has

advanced the incredible theory the mummified monk is still alive - despite it looking very

dead after two centuries spent wrapped in an animal hide.

"Lama is sitting in the lotus position vajra, the left hand is opened, and the right hand

symbolises of the preaching Sutra," he said.

"This is a sign that the Lama is not dead, but is in a very deep meditation according to the

ancient tradition of Buddhist lamas."

Buddhist monk Dr Barry Kerzin told the Mirror said the continuing meditative state of the

200-year-old monk is a source of joy to those nearby.

"If the meditator can continue to stay in this meditative state, he can become a Buddha,"

said Kerzin.

"Reaching such a high spiritual level the meditator will also help others, and all the people

around will feel a deep sense of joy."


The mummified monk was discovered in the Kobdsk region of Mongolia inside a cave. It

came in to the possession of the authorities after a man was caught trying to sell it on the

black market for an enormous sum.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Centuries old mummified monk found meditating in Mongolia​

By Hannah Osborne
January 28, 2015 11:41 GMT



Mummified monk found mediating in Mongolia(Mongolia Morning News)

The perfectly preserved mummified remains of a meditating Mongolian monk have been

discovered in the Songinokhairkhan province.

The body of the male mummy was found sitting in the lotus position and is believed to date back to the 1800s.

It was found in the Songinokhairkhan province earlier this week, according to a report in Mongolia's Morning Newspaper.

"The mummified body sits in a lotus position, as if still meditating. Experts that only had time to carry basic visual test say they believe the body can be about 200 years old.

"So far there is no information as to where the body was found. The only details we learned was that it was covered with a cattle skin."

Experts are currently analysing the remains at the Ulaanbaatar National Centre of Forensic Expertise.

It has been speculated the mummy could be the remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, a Buddhist monk and

teacher born in 1852.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

these Mongolian Buddhist clowns should not say such rubbish..........just try to get attention only......

 

[eatshitndie]

he is almost there going back in time to the moment when he evolved from salamander to newt. :p

 

[looneytan]

these Mongolian Buddhist clowns should not say such rubbish..........just try to get attention only......

Buddhist clowns are your dogs ah?

 

[yellowarse]

Load of bull.

1. Gautama meditated for 49 days under a Bo tree and attained Nirvana, becoming a Buddha. He didn't become a mummy.

2. If you need 200 years of meditation to reach Nirvana, you'll never get there. You'll probably need a few more rebirths.

3. There are incredible stories of yogis staying in suspended animation for many decades, with no visible signs of life (no pulse, no breathing) but they don't turn into mummies. The body's organs and tissues remain vivified because metabolism has almost stopped but pranic energy directed by the meditator's consciousness is continuously infusing the cells with life energy.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Mongolian scientists study 200-year-old mummified monk who is 'still alive’​

Two-centuries-old body discovered last week, covered in cattle skin, in Ulan Bator

is in meditative trance, according to some Buddhist experts

Scientists in Mongolia are examining a 200-year mummified monk who some Buddhists believe is still alive because he is in a deep

meditative trance.

The preserved body of the monk, sitting in the cross-legged lotus position, was discovered last week, covered in cattle skin, in the

Songino Khairkhan district of the capital, Ulan Bator.

The ash-coloured mummy has reportedly been sent to the National Centre of Forensic Expertise in Ulan Bator for further study.

Gankhüügiin Pürevbat, the founder of the Mongolian Institute of Buddhist Art at Ulan Bator Buddhist University, told the Siberian Times, a

news website: “The lama is sitting in the lotus position vajra, the left hand is opened, and the right hand symbolises of the preaching

Sutra.

'This is a sign that the lama is not dead, but is in a very deep meditation according to the ancient tradition of Buddhist lamas”.


Some experts on Buddhism said the monk could be in “tukdam”, a kind of deep meditative state that crosses over between life and death.

Dr Barry Kerzin, a monk and a physician to the Dalai Lama, told the website: “If the person is able to remain in this state for more than

three weeks - which rarely happens - his body gradually shrinks, and in the end all that remains from the person is his hair, nails, and

clothes.”

Local media said a 45-old-man had been arrested because the monk’s body had been stolen from a cave with the intention of selling it off.

It was unclear in what circumstances it was originally found.


The mummified monk is generally thought to have died in the 19th century. His identity is unknown.

In a similar case, the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, a lama in Russia’s Buryatia region, showed few signs of decay when it was exhumed in

2002. Monks say Itigilov is “not completely dead” and the temperature of his body rises during ceremonies at the monastery where it is

kept near Ulan Ude.

Itigilov died in 1927 while meditating, having asked fellow monks to bury him in the lotus position after he passed away. His body was

packed in salt.

 

[Semaj2357]

Load of bull.

1. Gautama meditated for 49 days under a Bo tree and attained Nirvana, becoming a Buddha. He didn't become a mummy.

2. If you need 200 years of meditation to reach Nirvana, you'll never get there. You'll probably need a few more rebirths.

3. There are incredible stories of yogis staying in suspended animation for many decades, with no visible signs of life (no pulse, no breathing) but they don't turn into mummies. The body's organs and tissues remain vivified because metabolism has almost stopped but pranic energy directed by the meditator's consciousness is continuously infusing the cells with life energy.

hope you're not referring to the one that has a permanent pout and tries to keep active by wearing track shoes

 

[yellowarse]

hope you're not referring to the one that has a permanent pout and tries to keep active by wearing track shoes

You referring to this near-Nirvanic mummy with the open-mouth mudra?

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Tukdam (Wyl. thugs dam) is an honorific term for meditative practice and experience that is frequently used to refer to the period following the death of a great master, during which time they are absorbed in luminosity. As Sogyal Rinpoche describes it in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying[1]:



A realized practitioner continues to abide by the recognition of the nature of mind at the moment of death, and awakens into the Ground Luminosity when it manifests. He or she may even remain in that state for a number of days. Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in that state for a number of days. Some practitioners and masters die sitting upright in meditation posture, and others in the “posture of the sleeping lion.” Besides their perfect poise, there will be other signs that show they are resting in the state of the Ground Luminosity: There is still a certain color and glow in their face, the nose does not sink inward, the skin remains soft and flexible, the body does not become stiff, the eyes are said to keep a soft and compassionate glow, and there is still a warmth at the heart. Great care is taken that the master’s body is not touched, and silence is maintained until he or she has arisen from this state of meditation.

 

[yellowarse]

The late great Paramahansa Yogananda was an example of a Tukdam. When he went into mahasamaddhi on March 7, 1952, his body remained incorruptible for 20 days, as ascertained by the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Mortuary in LA.

---

The fellowship's magazine, Self-Realization, tells the rest of the story. On March 6, Paramhansa told his disciples laughingly, "I have a big day tomorrow. Wish me luck." The next day he attended a banquet at Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel for the new Indian ambassador, Binay Ranjan Sen, and his beautiful wife.* After eating modestly (vegetables and strawberry parfait), the guru rose to make a speech about "spiritual India." He ended it with a quotation from one of his own poems:

Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God—I am hallowed; my body touched that sod.

As he finished, Paramhansa lifted his eyes, turned slightly to the right and slid to the floor, dead.

Self-Realization disciples claim that their teacher thus performed mahasamadhi (a yogi's conscious exit from the body). The medical verdict was "acute coronary occlusion," i.e. a heart attack.

At Forest Lawn Cemetery, where Paramhansa's body was embalmed, officials reported an unusual phenomenon. Wrote Mortuary Director Harry T. Rowe: "No physical disintegration was visible . . . even 20 days after death . . . Paramhansa Yogananda's body was apparently devoid of impurities . . . [His] case is unique in our experience."

* Seated: Mme. Binay Ranjan Sen, wife of the Indian Ambassador, touching her palms in a respectful Hindu greeting (the pronam.)

------------------------
Forest Lawn Memorial-Park
Glendale 5, California

TELEPHONES
LOS ANGELES, CLEVELAND 6-3131
GLENDALE. CITRUS 1-4151
CABLE ADDRESS HUBERT.

LOS ANGELES May 16, 1952​

Self-Realization Fellowship
3880 San Rafael Avenue
Los Angeles 65
California


Gentlemen:

The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramhansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience. Had the muscle protein and blood stream of the deceased not been comparatively free of bacteria, deterioration of the body could have set in as early as six hours after life had departed. No physical disintegration was visible in Paramhansa Yogananda's body even twenty days after death.

The body was under daily observation at the Mortuary of the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Association from March 11, 1952, the, day of the last public rites, until March 27, 1952, when the bronze casket was sealed by fire. During this period no indication of mold was visible on Paramhansa Yogananda's skin, and no visible desiccation (drying up) took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one.

Officials of Forest Lawn viewed the body of Paramhansa Yogananda an hour after his death on March 7, 1952. The body was then taken to his home on Mount Washington in Los Angeles, where many friends gathered to gaze at his form.

For protection of the public health, embalming is desirable if a dead body is to be exposed for several days to public view. Enbalming of the body of Paramhansa Yogananda took place twenty-four hours after his demise. In normal room-temperature, the enzyme action of the intestines of deceased persons causes distention of the tissues in the abdominal region about six hours after death. Such distention did not occur at any time in the case of Paramhansa Yogananda. When our Mortuary received his body for embalming, it presented no signs of physical deterioration and no putrefactive odor -- two very unusual absences when a death has occurred twenty-four hours earlier.

Paramhansa Yogananda's body was embalmed on the night of March 8th, with that quantity of fluid which is customarily used in any body of similar size. No unusual treatment was given.

In cases of persons that are embalmed and exhibited to friends for a period of two or three weeks, it is necessary, to insure presentability, for the embalmer to apply, on the face and hands of the deceased, a creamy pore-sealing emulsion that temporarily prevents the outward appearance of mold. In Paramhansa Yogananda's case, however, no emulsions were used. They were superfluous, inasmuch as his tissues underwent no visible transformations.

After embalming on the night of March 8th, the body of Paramhansa Yogananda was returned to the Self-Realization Fellowship headquarters on Mount Washington. At the final public rites there on the-afternoon of March llth, the glass sealer lid of the bronze coffin was fastened securely and was not again removed. His body was never touched again by human hands.

The body in the casket was taken about 10 p.m. on March llth to our Mortuary for daily observation. The reason for this procedure was the hope of Self-Realization Fellowship officers that two disciples of Paramhansa Yogananda's from India might arrive in Los Angeles sometime in March, when they could be brought to the Mortuary to view the body.

In any sealed casket, into which air cannot enter and from which air cannot escape, the internal moisture of the dead body, whether embalmed or unembalmed, soon forms a white mold on the skin unless the protective cream, not used in this case, is used. The natural characteristic of the muscle protein is to break down into amino acids and then into ptomaine acids. When ptomaine acids become active, deterioration of tissues is rapid. Paramhansa Yogananda's body was apparently devoid of any impurities by which muscle proteins could be resolved into ptomaine acids. His tissues remained intact.

At the time of receiving Paramhansa Yogananda's body, the Mortuary personnel at Forest Lawn expected to observe, through the glass lid of the casket, the usual progressive signs of bodily decay. Our astonishment increased as day followed day without bringing any visible change in the body under observation. Paramhansa Yogananda's body was apparently in a phenomenal state of immutability.

On the late morning of March 26th, we observed a very slight, a barely noticeable, change -- the appearance on the tip of the nose of a brown spot, about one-fourth inch in diameter. This small faint spot indicated that the process of desiccation (drying up) might finally be starting. No visible mold appeared, however.

The hands at all times remained normal in size, revealing no signs of shriveling or pinching at the fingertips -- the place where desiccation is ordinarily seen very early. The lips, which wore a slight smile, continuously retained their firmness. No odor of decay emanated from Paramhansa Yogananda's body at any time. Although the casket was closed by the heavy glass lid, it was not hermetically sealed. Any odor from the deceased, had it been present, would have been immediately detected by persons standing near the coffin. The volatile nature of odors renders it impossible to conceal their presence, except in rare circumstances that did not here obtain.

As word had been received that the two disciples from India would not be coming to America until 1953, the officers of Self-Realization Fellowship agreed, on March 27, 1952, that entombment of Paramhansa's casket should now take place. The inner glass lid was therefore sealed by fire to the lower part of the casket; the massive bronze cover was then placed on top and secured with mastic sealer and with bolts. The process of sealing by fire was accomplished on March 27th and 28th. The casket was removed on March 28, 1952, to a crypt in the Great Mausoleum in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, to remain there until such time as permanent enshrinement of the body can be arranged for by the Self Realization Fellowship.

The physical appearance of Paramhansa Yogananda on March 27th, just before the bronze cover of the casket was put into position, was the same as it had been on March 7th. He looked on March 27th as fresh and as unravaged by decay as he had looked on the night of his death. On March 27th there was no reason to say that his body had suffered any visible physical disintegration at all. For these reasons we state again that the case of Paramhansa Yogananda is unique in our experience.

On May 11, 1952, during a telephone conversation between an officer of Forest Lawn and an officer of Self-Realization Fellowship, the whole amazing story was brought out for the first time. Previously the Fellowship officer had not known the details, as he had not been in touch with the Mortuary Director but only with the Administrative Department of Forest Lawn. In the interests of truth, we are glad to present this written account for publication in Self-Realization Magazine.

Yours sincerely,

FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL-PARK ASSOCIATION, INC.
Harry T. Rowe, Mortuary Director.

 

[xpo2015]

Can he the mummified body answer my prayers?

Or is he adopting a you die your own problem kind of attitude?

 

[yellowarse]

Can he the mummified body answer my prayers?

The Kingdom of God is within you. Why would you need to pray to anyone at all?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Ah Neh type Buddha useless jaik leow bee, stagnant and no progress. Since CHina adopted Ah Neh type Budhha it went down economically and get eaten by angmohs.

Chairman Mao get rid of Buddhist and other religions for good and China achieved lumber 1 world economy today in 30 years.

Look at Ah Neh themselves still 3rd world country, plenty of poor people, slow economy growth all because of their stupid believe in their Hindu religion: Shiva, Buddha, pray to cow, rats, monkeys, elephants and snakes.

Dump Buddhism, adopt Confucius teaching 道。

Load of bull.

1. Gautama meditated for 49 days under a Bo tree and attained Nirvana, becoming a Buddha. He didn't become a mummy.

2. If you need 200 years of meditation to reach Nirvana, you'll never get there. You'll probably need a few more rebirths.

3. There are incredible stories of yogis staying in suspended animation for many decades, with no visible signs of life (no pulse, no breathing) but they don't turn into mummies. The body's organs and tissues remain vivified because metabolism has almost stopped but pranic energy directed by the meditator's consciousness is continuously infusing the cells with life energy.

 

[congo9]

Ah Neh type Buddha useless jaik leow bee, stagnant and no progress. Since CHina adopted Ah Neh type Budhha it went down economically and get eaten by angmohs.

Chairman Mao get rid of Buddhist and other religions for good and China achieved lumber 1 world economy today in 30 years.

Look at Ah Neh themselves still 3rd world country, plenty of poor people, slow economy growth all because of their stupid believe in their Hindu religion: Shiva, Buddha, pray to cow, rats, monkeys, elephants and snakes.

Dump Buddhism, adopt Confucius teaching 道。

You mean Asian Value ????

 

[AhGirl]

He is as dead as you can get.