'Immortal' body found after 32 years

• Aik TC

  12 Dec 10, 20:37

   

  'Immortal' body found after 32 years

  Global Times/Strait Metropolis Daily, December 9, 2010

  Longhai, China -- The "immortal" body of a woman who passed away in 1978 at a temple in Longhai city, Fujian Province is being gilded as a Buddha after it was discovered undecayed in a large jar by workers doing repairs on November 30. The well-preserved woman was identified at Zhou Gu who had been a laywoman at Linqianyan Temple, according to Liao Deyan, a man who sculpts Buddhas at the temple. "There was no trace of decay on her body or clothing. No odor, either," he said. "There was no lime or charcoal in the jar. It's a miracle the body was preserved so well."

  According to Chen Yiquan, deputy secretary general of the Xiangcheng district Buddhism committee, a vegetarian diet is a key factor in leaving an immortal body.

  "Her hands and feet could still be moved, and from her expression, it must have been quite peaceful when she passed away," said Liao, as he wrapped her body in gauze to make her into a "golden statue."

   

• Dawnfirstlight

  13 Dec 10, 09:24

  I was told by the tour guide that there are many cases of monks and nuns whose bodies are undecayed in China and other places in the world. I had been to ä¹�å�Žå±±(the place of worship for Earthstore Buddha) and I understand that place has the most undecay bodies of monks and nuns. Not only are the bodies undecay, the bodies have natural fragrance.

  Many scientists had been to ä¹�å�Žå±±to study the undecay bodies because according to the scientists, the climate at ä¹�å�Žå±±makes it difficult for the bodies to remain undecay. It seems that they could not find the answer. Their only explanation it could be due to the monks and nuns vegetarian diets.

• the Bear

  13 Dec 10, 09:33

  here's another story of an undecayed body found in China

  => The Lady Dai

  not long after, a few more were found which were also undecayed...

  the Christian world also have a few who were put as "incorruptables"

  => 10 Incorruptables

  i'm betting there are more out there which we have not discovered yet

• Amitayus48

  13 Dec 10, 11:27

  They should do a cremation before preserving it into a "golden statue". The bodies of Chan Patriarch Huineng and many other venerables were preserved into "golden statue" because there bodies still intact after cremation.

• Dawnfirstlight

  13 Dec 10, 11:59

  Originally posted by Amitayus48:

  They should do a cremation before preserving it into a "golden statue". The bodies of Chan Patriarch Huineng and many other venerables were preserved into "golden statue" because there bodies still intact after cremation.

  
  You mean after cremation (after burning), Ven. Master Huineng's body is still intact. If yes, that is really amazing!

• Junyang700

  13 Dec 10, 12:03

  Rotting meat decays faster?
  
  Probably if you eat meat before you die, the meat inside your body rots faster? If you eat veggies, veggies dun corrode as fast?

• dechang

  13 Dec 10, 12:15

  means they don't need to wrape up the body like those mummies in egypt's pyramid?

  don't need to use the modern freezing method?

  the body also never rot..so amazing

• Amitayus48

  13 Dec 10, 12:33

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  
  You mean after cremation (after burning), Ven. Master Huineng's body is still intact. If yes, that is really amazing!

  Ya, your buddha nature is indeed so amazing, besdies Ven. Master Huineng's body, there are other as well!

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• Aik TC

  13 Dec 10, 13:56

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  
  You mean after cremation (after burning), Ven. Master Huineng's body is still intact. If yes, that is really amazing!

   

  Well, it is called a ‘Whole Body Sarira’. I read somewhere that during the Japanese Occupation of China, some Japanese try to hack off Master Hui Neng head to be brought back to Japan, but it did seems that they did not succeed in doing so. Master Chi Hang of Taiwan is said to be another case of a ‘Whole Body Sarira’ after cremation. Enlightened Beings they certainly are.

• Pure Emptiness

  14 Dec 10, 17:41

  My house gt hui neng pic. My relatives took it during a trip to China.

   

• Pure Emptiness

  14 Dec 10, 17:45

  I saw a docummentary on cable TV gt japanese zen master Kong Hai or something also like this.

• Aik TC

  14 Dec 10, 21:34

  Originally posted by Pure Emptiness:

  My house gt hui neng pic. My relatives took it during a trip to China.

   

  Master Hui Neng, the sixth and last Patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism in China and author of the Platform Sutra is certainly highly regarded by all Buddhists. The Platform Sutra, is the only Mahayanist Sutra that is considered of purely Chinese origin.

   

• TehJarVu

  14 Dec 10, 21:44

  immortal and passed away

  what kind of oxymoron is that?

• Aik TC

  14 Dec 10, 21:50

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  immortal and passed away

  what kind of oxymoron is that?

  
  Who is talking of physical immortality, by the way?

• Aik TC

  14 Dec 10, 22:02

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  immortal and passed away

  what kind of oxymoron is that?

  
  Hopefully, you did notice the inverted commas on the word 'Immortal' and also have heard of the expression 'figure of speech'.