Talk:Victor H. Mair

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[edit] Tibetan mummies

I've seen the documentary Mystery of the Tibetan Mummy about Mair's investigation into a recently discovered body of a Tibetian monk, datable to ca. 1475. He compares it with several Japanese mummies and Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov and claims that hundreds of similar mummified bodies of Buddhist monks were destroyed by the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution or were cremated by the Lamaists in order to prevent their desecration. According to him, self-mummification was achieved by long starvation and slow self-suffocation using a special belt that connects the neck with the knees in a Lotus position. --Ghirla^-трёп- 17:21, 2 June 2007 (UTC)