3/17/2004: 280-year-old Vietnamese monk body found

Undertoad · 03-17-2004, 05:05 PM

Another dead dude on IotD - this one interesting because it was NOT mummified, but sat there anyway for years and years. This monk died in 1723 in Vietnam, apparently in the lotus position, and sat there resting peacefully since then in a tower in a remote pagoda.

OK, maybe he was partly mummified - he was coated in some sort of protective paint, so that the only damage he took was the loss of one eye socket and both arms. Well you can't have everything.

The full story does not give us much more information, but I think I would like to be painted with some weird paint and just sit there for a few centuries after I die. Only the first few decades seem boring, I'm sure.

03-17-2004, 05:05 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/17/2004: 280-year-old Vietnamese monk body found Another dead dude on IotD - this one interesting because it was NOT mummified, but sat there anyway for years and years. This monk died in 1723 in Vietnam, apparently in the lotus position, and sat there resting peacefully since then in a tower in a remote pagoda. OK, maybe he was partly mummified - he was coated in some sort of protective paint, so that the only damage he took was the loss of one eye socket and both arms. Well you can't have everything. The full story does not give us much more information, but I think I would like to be painted with some weird paint and just sit there for a few centuries after I die. Only the first few decades seem boring, I'm sure.

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