Have a read of this article: http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3%2C3759%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0
Its an incredible story, something I certainly didn’t think was possible.
Incase you don’t want to read the story, heres a brief overview:
A buddhist monk in Russia named Itigelov died in 1927. He wished to be buried in the same lotus position that he died in and requested that his body exhumed several years later. This was done in 1955 and 1973, although it was kept secret due to the communist regime in Russia at the time. In 2002 it was finally exhumed and since then has been put on display. On first examination, it was seen that there was no decay on the body. Whole muscles, sections of tissues, joint and skin were completely intact, like it was mummified, although this was not the case. Since 2002 it has been on display, in contact with people, no temperature or humidity control, in open air and, surprisingly, his body has not perished at all! Although it has been written about in buddhist texts, this is the only know case to be seen.
It is believed that meditation may have been a part in how this phenomenon occurred, but there are now also suggestions of how he was buried, such as in salt, and techniques such as types of fasting, that enable the skin to remain so well intact so long after death. Whatever the case of how he has survived for so long, this story is something to be marvelled at, and can give us something to fascinate on!
There are so many phenomenons written about in buddhist scriptures, my favorite is monks being able to levitate stones of substantial weight with incredible precision through the use of sound waves. Although this can be done, and has been done by NASA, it has not been proven on such a large scale through not electric devices! Its nice to see that one of these has now been proven beyond doubt!
With science slowly becoming more interested in the spiritual world, I hope more marvels are proved soon.
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