AMERSFOORT, NETHERLANDS—CT scans and endoscopy of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue from China have revealed a mummified body thought to belong to the Buddhist master Liuquan of the Chinese Meditation School.
The statue, housed at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, was examined at the Meander Medical Center. The body’s organs had been removed from the abdominal cavity and replaced with an unidentified material and paper printed with Chinese characters. Researchers at the Drents Museum speculate that the statue may represent a rare case of "self-mummification," in which monks would follow a special diet that turned them into "living skeletons" and would then be placed into tombs only slightly larger than themselves where they would eventually die.
Mummification of the dead is characteristic of the Chinese province of Tarim Basin.
The barren desert of China’s southern Tarim Basin has been the source of some of the ancient world’s most mysterious tattooed mummies. One of them belonged to a woman who some time between 1000 and 600 B.C. was possibly sacrificed and then buried in a necropolis now outside the modern village of Zaghunluq. The woman had brown hair with white streaks that had been braided and tied with red wool string, and her eyebrows had been painted just before her death.
University of Pennsylvania scholar Victor Mair has worked in the Tarim Basin and has studied the mummies for more than 30 years. He believes the woman’s charcoal and soot tattoos were likely ornamental or symbolic.
They include moons on her eyelids, ovals on her forehead, and a decorative scroll pattern on her left hand, wrist, and exceptionally long fingers. Although the culture to which the woman belonged has not been identified, the similarity of her tattoos to those of other mummies from Russia, for example, clearly identifies her as part of the Eurasian tradition of tattooing that begins with Ötzi some 5,000 years ago.
Tarim Basin can be and habitat Slav.
Caucasoid mumiii probably speaking Indo-European yazykoh began to appear in the eastern parts of the Tarim Basin about 3,000 years ago.
Do you think these are remnants of an early Slavic trade route with Asian people, or was it an Slavic settled land later being overrun by Asians? Looking at their dresses, decorations, considering it’s in the east and considering by DNA they were Indo-Europeans (R1a) it is obviously that remnants are of our kin. Fascinating isn’t it, 4000 years ago our people there.
Mysterious Shambhala?
Of all the regions of Central Asia, the Tarim Basin southwest of Turfan in size and shape suitable for Tibetan descriptions of Shambhala. Huge oval area bounded by the Kunlun, Pamir and Tien Shan, it can be seen as a huge lotus flower, surrounded by a ring of snowy mountains. Small kingdoms that existed side by side in many oases scattered around the periphery of the basin may well have provided the model for ninety-six principalities outer region of Shambhala.
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