The Mummified Monk

 The Mummified Monk
By: Caitlyn

There is a Buddha statue and it contains a holy man, this holy man was trapped inside the Buddha. Scientist have been studying on this and they believe he was stuck in the Buddha statue for over 200 years. The holy man named Liuquan was inside the Buddha and he was sitting in a lotus position. As he was there he was slowly dying because he had no food to eat.


In 1997 the scientist discover that the 1000 year old Buddha had been restored with gold painting by the Buddha owner. The owner was repainting the Buddha statue and detached the wooden platform then he discovered there was two pillows. He was fascinated by it so he gave it to the scientist to investigate on.

The scientist put the Buddha statue inside the CT scan the tests showed that there was a body inside, but it did not show the man's organs they didn't know how the holy man's organs were taken out.

The Buddha owner gave it to the museum because they were having a special exhibition(display) The exhibition at the museum ended at august 2014.

They halt/stop the investigation because there was no answer for them to figure out about the Buddha and the holy man that was inside and also they didn't know how the organs got taken out.

The big surprise was that they found the man inside the Buddha so that is why they call it the “living Buddha”. The other surprise was that the organs were taken out and they don’t know why and how.
This means that in this process he was transferred into the Buddha statue. They went through this because it was an ancient ritual that some followed.

The mummy was placed inside the Buddha statue so that they could be put in a temple and people could go there and worship/praise it.