Trekker finds Buddhist Lama mummy in a mountain hideaway in North India

HindustanTimes.com ^ | New Delhi, March 2 2004 | Anuj Singh

[adam_az]

"There is a technique through diet whereby eastern monks mummify themselves while still alive."

Yes! They eat some kind of tree which has a potent resin in the sap in the mountains of Japan. I've seen video of the mummies. Supposedly no one has done it for a long time.

Many monks, when reaching the end of their life, die through meditation and starvation... it's easier than dying of whatever else is going to kill them.

[adam_az]

bumpity bump

[Mr. Jeeves]

I remember the "Marco Polo" miniseries. Leonard Nimoy was in it, playing one of Kublai Khan's henchmen. It was a good series - they ought to put it on DVD.

[apillar]

BREAKING:

Sources indicate that, although dead for 500 years, Buddhist Monk Sangha Tenzin donated heavily to the Clinton/Gore 1996 Campaign and as recently as 2002 voted straight ticket democrat on an absentee ballot in a New Orleans precinct.

[TigersEye]

Does anyone else remember the miniseries? I'm glad I recorded it on the first VCR I ever owned; it has been unobtainable ever since. Either NBC or Rai Television Italiano yanked it from the light of day.

I remember that show. Was there something unPC about it to cause them to bury it? I don't remember anything like that but then I didn't know about PC back then.

They said he was being fed some kind of condensed nutrition with tree resin in it that was mummifying him alive. That was in China but there is a practice in Tibet of sucking algae/lichen covered rocks for sustenance by cave dwelling ascetics. The best known of these in Tibetan history is Milarepa. It is said that he turned green from the chlorophyll. He also looked like a skeleton and he scared the crap of the locals when he finally came down from his cave naked, green and nothing but skin and bones.

[Gangchen_gonpo]

I caught an hour long TV documentary on the investigation. The name escapes me, but I believe it has Tibet and/or Lama in the title. It was on one of the History or Discovery channels a couple of months ago. (maybe they hadn't watched the same show or they might not have claimed 'exclusivity.')

They looked at many aspects of what his life would have been like. Not sure that I would have made the same choices he did.

[SunkenCiv]

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