Inside Buddha statue the mummy is found

Employers of historical museum Drentse (Assen) forged close links with the main hospital of Amersfoorts city, the doctors of which put the statue in computer tomographic scanner. Inside the object, mummified remains were found. In opinion of Buddhist scientist Erik Bruijn, they belong to the master Liuquan, well known to representatives of Ch’an school.

Amersfoort gastroenterologist, who investigated the abdominal and thoracic cavity of the dead body, revealed that instead of the inward parts monk had had rubbish, rot, and pieces of paper with Chinese hieroglyphs. Thus, during the mummification innards were removed. Nevertheless, many Buddhists are sure that gurus alike Liuquan did not simply die but ascended into higher state of meditation.

Chinese texts are to be decoded and included in the monograph about Liuquan which university is preparing for edition at the moment. The statue with mummy was sent to Budapest where till May 2015 it is about to be displayed in Museum of natural history of Hungary.

In January 2015, Mongolian mass media also reported about discovery of Buddhist monk mummy who had been sitting in the lotus pose nearly for twenty hundred years, however, Mongolian scientists regard that it belongs to Pandito Hambo Lama XII Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov who died in 1927.