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A gold statue of Buddha housed at Hungary's Natural History Museum has been discovered to contain the mummified body of an ancient Chinese monk. PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy Drents Museum
March 6, 2015 (Reuters) -- A Buddha statue from China that conceals the remains of a monk who turned himself into a mummy almost a millennium ago is the centrepiece of an exhibition in Budapest.
Visitors to the popular "Mummy World" exhibition at the Natural History Museum see a golden statue of a sitting Buddha, about four-foot (1.2-m) tall.
On a television monitor, they can see the skeletal remains of the mummified monk inside it.
"The Buddha statue belongs to a Dutch private collector and when he bought it, he had no idea what it was hiding inside," said Monika Kiss-Stefan, a spokeswoman for the Budapest museum.
She said the monk had prepared for his death meticulously.
Monks who choose self-mummification ate only seeds for a long time and then roots of a poisonous plant to prevent maggots eating their flesh, she said.
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CreatedSunday, March 08 2015
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Last modifiedSunday, March 29 2015
