A group of Chinese villagers have travelled to the Netherlands ... A CT scan in February, 2015, revealed that the golden statue concealed the remains of a mummified monk. Controversy about the ...

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 ...

New York, Feb 24: A gold-painted Chinese statue of a sitting Buddha hides mummified remains of a high-status monk who lived ... It may have been smuggled from the country and was bought and ...

Its owner suspected it might contain something inside and took it to Utrecht University to have ... monk's death, followed by several layers of enamel and finally golden paint, to make the statue ...

The Chinese master is believed to have carried out self ... remains of a Buddhist monk who meditated to death, encased inside a 1,000-year-old ancient statue. Scientists scanned the Buddha and ...