`......This was found inside a Buddha statue.`

[LongTermGuy]

`.......and the story.....Very cool and creepy.`

http://i62.tinypic.com/2zxtvg1.jpg


http://www.livescience.com/49909-bud...lds-mummy.html (http://www.livescience.com/49909-buddha-statue-holds-mummy.html)

[LongTermGuy]

Quote:

<tbody>
``It's not clear exactly how Liuquan became a mummy, but "in China, and also in Japan and Laos and Korea, there's a tradition of self-mummification," van Vilsteren said.

In some cases, aging Buddhist monks (http://www.livescience.com/39449-tibetan-monks-protect-snow-leopards.html) would slowly starve themselves to eliminate decay-promoting fat and liquid, while subsisting mainly on pine needles and resin to facilitate the mummification process, according to "Living Buddhas: The Self-Mummified Monks of Yamagata, Japan," (McFarland, 2010). Once these monks were near death, they would be buried alive with just a breathing tube to keep them holding on so they could meditate until death.

"There are historical records of some aging monks who have done this practice," van Vilsteren said.``

</tbody>

[tailfins]

So this means Buddhism is a suicide cult.