A monk hidden in plain sight for a millennium wild discovery.
I-NEED-TO-GO-REHAB on
Give this man a golden pla…dw
vmp10687 on
Hmmm… something tells me this is fake?
Crypto-Bullet on
🗿
Same_Plum_4079 on
It is like the statue was literally guarding its own secret for a millennium history hiding in plain sight.
Fisi_Matenten on
Waiting 1000 years for a CT scan
StopEatingBees on
“We knew there’d be skeleton bones in one of these things eventually.”
Unhappy-Professor-88 on
Oh, their Accident & Emergency Dept clearly had a similar waiting time to mine to get a CT scan.
53180083211 on
Peekaboo
ASouthernDandy on
This one’s real. It’s a Chinese monk who self-mummified over a thousand years ago, then got sealed inside a statue. CT scans showed bones and organs still in there, not some random prop skeleton. Weird as hell, but very well documented. The world is just stranger than people think.
Wingkongexpress on
Don’t play hide and seek in the monk foundry.
Responsible-Leg-712 on
k0-brah on
Still got the beard
-endjamin- on
Shugendo monks have a practice of mummifying themselves while still alive to become immortal or something:
It’s very much a thing, when monks are about to die they keep themselves in a tiny bunker with a bell that they can ring and they starve themselves to death, their disciple would know they’re gone when the bell stop ringing. They don’t always mummified tho, it’s pretty rare, but when they do they all get displayed. A lot of them straight as or just with gold foil covered on top and some of them turned into statues.
93195 on
Uhhh, Jim?
That’s not a statue.
Linus_Naumann on
Hide-and-seek world champion
Justhandguns on
It’s a way to honour the well establish monks, call 金身, i.e. Golden Body, where people could still worship them in the temples.
iammyoutiesinnie on
Ummm! Did the Monk’s insurance cover the scan?
FirmlyClaspIt on
It was me guys. New York rent is expensive
adriantullberg on
Whoever that monk was, he won that game of hide-and-seek.
SimonPho3nix on
This looks like the basis of a horror movie…
donku83 on
Ok, now put it back where you found it. We don’t need a 1000 year curse being unleashed or something
I-NEED-TO-GO-REHAB on
Is it just me or do y’all wanna see an enached photo of this mummies dick? I might be strange hahaha
Prince_Derrick101 on
The ultra rare secret blind box pull.
avsa on
How do you even make one of these? You can’t use a mold to pour the metal. I suppose they just plaster the body and then add a thin gold foil?
DO0M88 on
How are the bones still perfectly intact and upright instead of just collapsing to the bottom of the statue
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A monk hidden in plain sight for a millennium wild discovery.
Give this man a golden pla…dw
Hmmm… something tells me this is fake?
🗿
It is like the statue was literally guarding its own secret for a millennium history hiding in plain sight.
Waiting 1000 years for a CT scan
“We knew there’d be skeleton bones in one of these things eventually.”
Oh, their Accident & Emergency Dept clearly had a similar waiting time to mine to get a CT scan.
Peekaboo
This one’s real. It’s a Chinese monk who self-mummified over a thousand years ago, then got sealed inside a statue. CT scans showed bones and organs still in there, not some random prop skeleton. Weird as hell, but very well documented. The world is just stranger than people think.
Don’t play hide and seek in the monk foundry.
Still got the beard
Shugendo monks have a practice of mummifying themselves while still alive to become immortal or something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu?wprov=sfti1
Not mummified as we know it
In Buddhism, it’s called crystalization after someone who dies in Samadhi (deep level of meditation)
If bodies get burnt, they will leave behind objects like hairs, brain, small colorful rocks…
It happens a lot in Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka… it’s a sign these monks achieved highly in their lives
I would love to know how this was done. I think it’s so cool.
From Wiki : [Flesh body bodhisattvas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_mummy)
It’s very much a thing, when monks are about to die they keep themselves in a tiny bunker with a bell that they can ring and they starve themselves to death, their disciple would know they’re gone when the bell stop ringing. They don’t always mummified tho, it’s pretty rare, but when they do they all get displayed. A lot of them straight as or just with gold foil covered on top and some of them turned into statues.
Uhhh, Jim?
That’s not a statue.
Hide-and-seek world champion
It’s a way to honour the well establish monks, call 金身, i.e. Golden Body, where people could still worship them in the temples.
Ummm! Did the Monk’s insurance cover the scan?
It was me guys. New York rent is expensive
Whoever that monk was, he won that game of hide-and-seek.
This looks like the basis of a horror movie…
Ok, now put it back where you found it. We don’t need a 1000 year curse being unleashed or something
Is it just me or do y’all wanna see an enached photo of this mummies dick? I might be strange hahaha
The ultra rare secret blind box pull.
How do you even make one of these? You can’t use a mold to pour the metal. I suppose they just plaster the body and then add a thin gold foil?
How are the bones still perfectly intact and upright instead of just collapsing to the bottom of the statue
Who thought to check?
Hmm