Summary Of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov

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The message talks about a popular, unbelievable claim that a Buddhist monk who died in 1927 did not show any signs of decay until his body was exhumed for the third time in 2002. The message refers to Buddhist leader Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, but the claims are not entirely facts. The Story Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov was a well known spiritual leader of Russian Buddhists, the 12th Pandito Hambo Lama. Back in 1927, at the age of 75, he gathered his students and announced his plans to die. It is said that he instructed them to revisit his dead body in 30 years. Then he crossed his legs into the lotus position, began to meditate, chanting a prayer and died. Aftermath As told by their master, it is said that Itigilov's followers exhumed his body from a cemetery in Khukhe-Zurkhen and were supposedly shocked to see his body still in the lotus position -- perfectly intact without decaying. Some versions of the story say that Itigilov's body was exhumed and examined by Buddhist monks like this twice, in 1955 and in 1973. They say that Itigilov's dead body defied nature's imperative to decay. Then it is said that the Buddhists reburied Itigilov in a secret, unmarked grave, packing his wooden coffin with salt.…show more content…
The official statement about Itigilov's body said that it was "in the condition of someone who had died 36 hours ago", very well preserved, without any signs of decay, with whole muscles and inner tissue, soft joints and

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