A Buddhist academic has said a 200-year-old mummified monk discovered in Mongolia may not be dead but in a "very deep meditation".
The preserved body was discovered in the lotus position, covered in animal hide, last week in the Songinokhairkhan district, close to the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.
Forensic examinations are being carried out on the remains, which investigators believe belong to a man who may have been a Lama, or a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
Now, an expert has claimed the monk may have been in a rare spiritual state known as "tukdam".
It has been suggested the mummified monk was a teacher of the Buryat Buddhist Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, who was born in 1852, and was reported to have died in 1927 while meditating.
When his body was examined by Buddhist monks in 1955 and again in 1973, Itigilov apparently remained in the lotus position and his body did not appear to show signs of decay.
It is understood the body was reburied in a coffin packed with salt and left until 2002 when it was once again exhumed, 75 years after Itigilov's death.
The extremely well-preserved of a 200 year old monk sitting in the lotus position was found in Mongolia. Many Buddhists claim he is in a rare, deep state of meditation and is not dead. Scientists are not why the mummy is in such good condition, but it’s likely due to cold weather
According to a 2002 report in the The New York Times, a dozen witnesses were on hand to see the body had remained preserved.
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