Talk:Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov

message: Is the spelling right? Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov return only 6 Google results with a "Did you mean Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov?", which returns 160.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Emcee2k (talk • contribs) 23:18, 19 February 2006.
:I noticed the same thing, and have moved the page accordingly. --DarrenBaker 15:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling? 

message: What happened to the body's face in the picture?
:Yeah, it doesn't quite look like the face of someone who died 36 hours ago! And with some other editors above I agree that this article is in desperate need of more reliable sources. Who were these scientists? — mark ✎ 12:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Izvestiya, the body was examined by several commissions of forensic experts. They interviewed Prof. Viktor Zvyagin, who runs the Personality Identification Department of the Russian Center of Forensic Medicine. According to him, they analyzed the samples of Itigelov's hair, skin, and nails and found no substantial difference from those samples taken from living people. They also explained a sweet smell the body exudes by its long preservation in a box made of cedar. --Ghirla | talk 12:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

text: It looks like he has something (probably ceremonial) attached to his face, covering his eyes. However, the most interesting thing to me is the fact that there's a white powder along the base of the corpse. I have to wonder if that's salt. Packing the body in salt for decades would have preserved it, but I think the body would have needed to be stuffed, or it would desicate like a mummy. -Harmil 15:20, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Salt is said to have been added to the grave by followers during the second exhumation, in the 1970s. --Ghirla | talk 15:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe his testament also mentioned that he wanted to have seasoning? Bobak 16:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No decay, right?  Renata 16:35, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Still, pretty good for someone who has been dead (and supposedly kept outdoors) for over 75 years. --205.206.139.41 23:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Face? 

message: The lack of neutral sources indicates that this article is not very credible. If the body is really incorruptible how come there hasn't been any neutral scientist who has examined him and corroborate the story? Surely this is one of the biggest mysteries in this world, and scientists love mysteries. Unless they have done that and came up with the conclusion that the body has been embalmed. --84.188.156.21 18:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No neutral sources 

message: "He took part in the Tercentenary celebrations of the House of Romanov and opened the Gunzechoyney datsan, the first Buddhist temple in St. Petersburg and indeed in Europe."
Didn't the Buddhist Kalmykia have any temple? Really hard to believe, as the first thing kalmyks exiled in Belgrad after Russian Revolution did was to build a temple. --95.120.56.248 (talk) 07:03, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First temple in Europe???? 

message: How can you repeatedly be saying that while showing a picture of a person that is beyond any healthy skin color or body shape? Compare the first with the second picture and tell me you notice no signs of decay. 2003:57:EC3D:65D5:7DF0:8103:334A:2454 (talk) 11:34, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  No sign of decay? 

message: There is no mystery here. This is just an example, in Russia, of a well known Buddhist practice of self-mummification. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.255.42 (talk) 23:56, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sokushinbutsu