A statue of a sitting Buddha that made its way from a temple in China to a market in the Netherlands revealed an extraordinary secret – a 1,000-year-old mummified monk. The mummy was discovered ...

The mummified remains of a monk have been revealed inside a nearly 1,000-year old Chinese statue of a Buddha. The mummy inside the gold-painted papier-mache statue is believed to be that of ...

Mummified remains of a monk have been found encased in a Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th Century. Erik Bruijn, an Buddhism expert, led the study that determined the mummy was of ...

In 2015, a C.T. scan revealed the mummified remains of a monk inside a thousand-year-old Buddha statue. Researchers brought the statue from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to the Meander ...

The horrifying moment a giant statue of Buddha collapsed killing a monk has been captured on film. The 29ft (9m) statue was being built for good luck at the Kaeng Khan Sung Monastery in eastern ...

"It was not uncommon for monks to practise self-mummification but to find a mummified monk inside a statue is really extraordinary," said Wilfrid Rosendahl, a German palaeontologist who led the ...

THIS is the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk who meditated to death, encased inside a 1,000-year-old ancient statue. Scientists scanned the Buddha and made the grisly discovery, when they saw ...

BANGKOK: A viral video of two boys dancing and touching a revered monk’s statue during Songkran sparked outrage on Thai social media and drew nearly 200 comments. Thai social media users have ...

BUDAPEST (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 centerpiece of an exhibition in Budapest.