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1,000-Year-Old Mummy Found In South West China
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Beijing,
April 25, IRNA -- A 1,000 years old female mummy was recently found in a mountain
range at an altitude of 5,000 meters in southwest China Tibet autonomous region,
Xinhua news agency reported.
According to the archeologists the mummy
was one the Buddhist nazarites.
The mummy, which was found by the villagers
of the area in a cave sealed by huge stones, was sitting cross-legged with 65
cm height. Her musculatore was air-dried with her both eyes and feet well preserved
and her body wrapped in a cotton cloth.
It is a tradition for Buddhist
nazarites to hide in secret mountain areas to practice Buddhism. They live on
light food and fresh water and when they die, thier bodies are left in the caves
were they had stayed.
At present, there are more than 100 Buddhist nazarites
on the northern bank of Lhasa River, one of the three centers where nazarites
gather.
Two or three nazarites share a cave where they eat a tiny amount
of Zamba, and drink fresh water and practice Buddhism.
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