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Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov   ( Russian :   Даши-Доржо Итигэлов ;   Buryat : Этигэлэй Дашадоржо; 1852–1927) was a   Buryat Buddhist   lama   of the   Tibetan Buddhist tradition, best known for the lifelike state of his dead body, which is reported not to be subject to macroscopic   decay . Dashi Dorzho Itigilov Born May 13, 1852 Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai ,  Russian Empire Died June 15, 1927 (aged 75) Citizenship Russian Biography Edit Itigilov was born in 1852 and began his religious education at the age of sixteen years. He studied at the  Anninsky Datsan  (a Buddhist teaching monastery in  Buryatia , of which only ruins remain), earning diplomas in medicine and philosophy. At that time he wrote an encyclopedia of  pharmacology . In 1911, he was appointed the twelfth  Pandido Khambo Lama  (as the head of  Russian Buryat Buddhists  is styled), at which post he inaugurate...

A   flood myth   or   deluge myth   is a narrative in which a great   flood , usually sent by a   deity   or deities, destroys civilization , often in an act of   divine retribution . Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths   and the primeval waters found in certain   creation myths , as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a   culture hero , who “represents the human craving for life”. [1] The  flood myth motif  is found among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian  flood stories,  Deucalion in  Greek mythology , the  Genesis flood narrative ,  Manu  in  Hinduism ,  Bergelmir in  Norse Mythology , in the lore of the K’iche’  and  Maya peoples  in Mesoamerica , the  Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa  tribe of Native Americans in North Am...