In the archaeological history of our country, there are many wet corpses, dry corpses and so on. Because of proper preservation, some corpses can leave a complete body. But at Dinghui Temple in Handan, Hebei Province, there is a thousand-year-old dried corpse. This is a high monk, the body was not buried after his death, but was preserved by his disciples, and has been enshrined in the temple, after thousands of years, it is still vivid, amazing! This enlightened monk, who has been revered by the temple for thousands of years, is not from my country, he is a virtuous master from India.
As we all know, Buddhist culture originated in India, and the Buddha was Shakyamuni. In the history of the development of religion in china, Buddhism is the religion that the Chinese people believe in the most. The period of rapid development of Buddhism in China is the period of the Five Dynasties. At that time, Master Cixian traveled thousands of miles from India to China and made great contributions to the spread of Buddhist culture in China. During his lifetime, Master Cixian translated a total of 12 Buddhist scriptures, and his Daoist practice was very high, and his disciples were numerous, all of whom were deeply rooted in the Fa.
After master Cixian died, he left the body to his disciples, who smeared his body with incense clay lacquer and repeatedly sculpted the golden body, which has been enshrined in the Dinghui Temple in Handan. In fact, after the death of ordinary enlightened monks, they are often cremated into relics and left as the treasures of the Buddhist family to future generations, while "bodhisattvas in the flesh" like Master Cixian are different from ordinary broken body relics, which are full-body relics. According to the Buddhist interpretation, these monks practice rigorously throughout their lives, and their hearts are pure and untainted, and their noble hearts have a subtle influence on the functions of the body, which is also the main reason why their flesh is not rotten.
More than a thousand years have passed, and the "bodhisattva in the flesh" of Master Cixian is still vivid, and people are full of curiosity while marveling, and some people even doubt whether it is true or false. National archaeologists were also very interested in this and wanted to investigate further, and with the consent of all the staff of Dinghui Temple, an X-ray examination of the body of Master Cixian was carried out, and this test found something incredible. The scan results showed that although it had been more than a thousand years since master Cixian's death, his skeleton joints and organs throughout his body were no different from those of normal people, and even the tissue of his brain was preserved intact. If you don't look at the appearance, you can almost think of it as a devharma and a life feature, and it is incredible to sit there peacefully chanting the sutra and chanting the Buddha, being tested by the instrument.
In this regard, some experts believe that this production principle is very similar to mummification, to put it bluntly, it is dehydration, the monk does not eat for a month before his death, drinks only a little water every day, takes a little cinnabar, until the drip does not enter, and gradually dies. However, this method of death is also too painful, and I don't know whether it is true or not.