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Life after dead of a Buddhist Monk
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...