Dashi Dorzho Itigelov (translated: the sun and the diamond of faith) or Pandito Hambo Lama became very famous all over the world thanks to the real miracle that he was able to show people. After he spent several decades in the grave and was considered dead, his body turned out to be untouched by decomposition, and many researchers of this phenomenon claim that Khambo-Lama Itigelov is alive but in an unknown state. But first things first:
Itigelov, Dashi-Dorzho was born in 1852 in Ulzy Dobo, Buryatia. During his lifetime he was the 12th Pandito Khamba Lama. Itigelov's predecessor was Choinzon-Dorzho Iroltuev, and after Itigelov's death in 1927, Namzhil Laidapov became his successor. Believers recognized him as the rebirth of Damba-Dorzho Zayaev himself, who was the first Khamba Lama. During his life he became famous for his religious Buddhist activities and was the head of all Buddhists in Eastern Siberia. His educational work and activities are still remembered.
From childhood, he was distinguished by his determination and strong character. Many noted that Dashi-Giorgio was independent of other people's opinions. Although this is not a surprising fact, because he lost his parents very early and was forced to live on his own. Among other things, many noticed his ability to predict the future. For example, there is a legend where Itigelov said to Lama Agvan Dorzhiev, who returned to his homeland from Mongolia: “You shouldn’t have returned here. It would be better if you stayed abroad. Arrests of llamas will begin soon. If you fall into their hands, they won’t leave you alive,” to which Agvan asked: “Why don’t you leave on your own?” Itigelov replied: “They won’t have time to take me.” Subsequently, this is exactly what happened. Even as a child, when he was tending cattle for a rich family, he told the owner that he would become the head of the Buddhists, Hambo Lama, but she only laughed in response. In 1998, Itigelov’s messages were found in the library of the Ivolginsky datsan, which are stunning with their accurate prophecies.
On June 15, 1927, the 12th Hambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov gathered his students and sat in the lotus position. He ordered his disciples to open the grave after 30 years and see what condition his body would be in. Then he, together with his students, read a special mantra-prayer for the deceased and went into nirvana, from which he never came out and, it is believed, is still in it. 85 years have passed since Itigelov’s death, but his body is still in meditation. Then he was buried in a cedar cube (bumkhan) in the lotus position.
Since then, his body has remained incorruptible, as if Itigelov is still alive. However, its safety was not discovered at all at the last time. In 1955, as bequeathed by the 12th Hambo Lama, a group of lamas opened the grave. They were convinced that Itigelov was still in a state of nirvana, changed his clothes, performed the necessary rituals and put his body back. The grave was opened for the second time in 1973. The third and last time this happened was in 2002. On September 10, 2002, a group of lamas and scientists again raised the sarcophagus and allowed researchers to study Itigelov's body.
Scientists obtained llama tissue - hair, skin particles, nail sections. After studying, we came to a striking conclusion: a detailed study showed that they have intravital characteristics and are indistinguishable from the tissue samples of the researchers themselves. The body has no cadaverous odor or presence of decomposition. The skin has the ability to sweat in hot weather. The eyeballs are in place. Brain pulsation detected. For studying phenomenon of world significance, the Itigelov Institute was built.
Itigelov’s body is the real proof of the power of faith. Thousands of tourists, amazed by the existence of such a miracle, annually visit the place - the Ivolginsky datsan, where his body is kept in a glass sarcophagus and see with their own eyes how amazing life and faith can be.
On September 11, 2002, the opening of the sarcophagus with the ashes of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov took place in the Ivolginsky datsan
(1852-1927).
Even among very advanced Buddhist practitioners, achieving an incorruptible body is a rare case, according to representatives of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia. Only great Teachers, when passing away, can enter a state of meditation-samadhi and purify their body so that it is preserved after death. This happens because the process of death - the extinction of the vital functions of the body - is under conscious control. But not every body can remain incorruptible, says the oldest Buryat Lama, Gelek-Balbar. One can only assume that Hambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was a practitioner of the highest level who achieved direct comprehension of the Emptiness - the Great Reality of all phenomena. “From early childhood, I heard from old people and relatives about Khambo Lama Itigelov,” says unzad lama, leader of prayer readings, Bimba Dorzhiev, who has served in the Ivolginsky datsan since 1988 (he is originally from Khuramshi, a village located not far from the former Yangazhinsky datsan , where Itigelov served - Author.) - I remember the story of how the parishioners of the Tsongol datsan turned to Hambo Lama Itigelov with a request to determine a new place to build the datsan, since the previous one was flooded with water during floods.
Itigelov pointed out the place, saying that the bell and vajra of the first Khambo Lama Damba Dorzhi Zayaev were buried there. And there they really discovered these objects and subsequently built a new dugan of the Khilgantuy (Tsongol) datsan. Believers mistook Itigelov for a reincarnation of Khambo Lama Zayaev." They made sure of the safety of his body according to the will. In fact, in 1955, a group of lamas led by Khambo Lama Lubsan-Nima Darmaev opened the sarcophagus with the body, put it in order and returned it to the bumkhan. Most likely, this was done secretly from the authorities, and, of course, in those years there could be no question of returning the body to the datsan. “I kept in mind all the time that the current generation of Buddhist clergy needed to find again the sarcophagus of Hambo Lama and check the condition of his body, continues Lama Bimba Dorzhiev. “Even in a dream, I saw us opening the sarcophagus, and I became even more confident in the belief that if we make the incorruptible body of Khambo Lama Itigelov an object of veneration for believers, then this will become the greatest blessing.”
Dorzhiev found a man who knew about the burial place of the Teacher - grandfather Amgalan Dabaev, born in 1914. He saw Itigelov during his lifetime, and his father-in-law participated in the opening of the sarcophagus in 1955. Bimba Lama and a group of believers turned to Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev with a request to organize excavations. And on September 10, with a group of lamas and relatives of Khambo, Lama Ayusheev went to the burial site. With the help of grandfather Amgalan, the exact burial place was determined. “Our rational mind says that preserving a deceased body in more or less good condition is impossible. After all, 75 years have passed since the departure of Hambo Lama,” says Damba Ayusheev. “I asked everyone to move away from the sarcophagus at the most crucial moment.” A medical doctor approached him expert E. Mandarkhanov, and when some time later he confirmed that the body was safe, I experienced great relief and joy. But at the same time I felt a burden of responsibility for the future fate of this body, precious to us."
On the evening of September 10, with a large crowd of believers, the sarcophagus was greeted in the datsan with the honors of the highest Buddhist hierarch. Under the reading of prayers and the sounds of ritual instruments, he was placed in Divazhin-dugan, where there is a model of heaven - the pure land of Buddha Amitabha, as well as the mandala of the highest deities. Excitement, doubt, a sense of involvement in a historical event - these emotions were experienced by each of those present at the opening of the sarcophagus. Experts I.A. Vologdin and D.A. Gorin compares the lifetime photograph of Hambo Lama D.-D. Itigelova with an exhumed body, dressed in a yellow terlig, and they say with confidence: “This is him.”
From dawn to night in Divazhin-dugan, lamas and huvaraks read a special prayer every day - “Dambrel dodbo” - “Praise to interdependent origination” - the root text on the emptiness of all phenomena. The Central Spiritual Administration of the Sangha of Russia decided to build a special sarcophagus from double-glazed windows and create all conditions for the further preservation of the precious relic. One of the main initiators of the opening of the burial site of Hambo Lama D.-D. was appointed responsible for the “Collection of the Precious Body of the Teacher”. Itigelova unzad lama of the Ivolginsky datsan Bimba Dorzhiev. Worshiping the body of a yogi can bring great benefit to all believers, says the respected Gelek-Balbar Lama. Since the time of the students of Tsonghawa, the founder of the Gelukpa school (XV century), there have been attempts to preserve the Teacher’s body, but not all of them were successful. But the Buddhists of Buryatia are incredibly lucky; they can witness the miracle with their own eyes. The Great Teacher was able to reveal his incorruptible body to the eyes of his followers after 75 years to remind us of our frailty, impermanence and death, and the great power of the Buddha’s Teachings.
“THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE ME”
Facts from the biography of the twelfth Pandito Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov Having been left an orphan early, Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was brought up by Nadmit Batuev, a wealthy man at that time, in the Orongoi area - now the Ivolginsky district. Having reached the age of 16, he went to study at the Aninsky datsan of the Khorinsky Steppe Duma. In those years, this datsan was one of the most famous in terms of the level of education of its priestly lamas. There he spent about 20 years studying Sanskrit, Tibetan language, logic, and philosophy. Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov improved his knowledge of Buddhist sciences in the Tsugolsky and Aginsky datsans, and also served in the Tamchinsky datsan - the residence of the Hambo Lama. Most likely, in one of them he defended the title of gabzhi lama, which corresponds to the title of candidate of philosophical sciences. Returning to the Yangazhinsky datsan in the Orongoi area, he became a full-time Buddhist philosopher; taking this position was very difficult and at the same time honorable, because the full-time lamas were actually on state support.
In 1904, Itigelov was appointed Shireete Lama of the Yangazhinsky datsan. On March 24, 1911, he was nominated among ten candidates for the post of Pandito Khambo Lama - head of the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia. With a diploma dated April 11, 1911, the Irkutsk Governor confirmed him with the rank of Supreme Head of all Buddhist datsans. According to legend, at the time of enthronement of Khambo Lama D.-D. Itigelov, before sitting on the Khambin throne, took out the seventh one from the olbok pillows and, placing it on top of all the others, sat down on the throne. This was the head of Pandito Khambo Lama Eshizhamsuev Danzat-Gevan. Before his reign, there was a long-standing dispute among the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia about the primacy between the Khilgantuy and Tamchin datsans. Itigelov’s action was regarded as a sign that he had come to put an end to long-standing feuds.
Subsequently, Hambo Lama D.-D. Itigelov was searching for the burial place of the first Pandito Khambo Lama Damba-Dorzhi Zayaev and even, according to some sources, was recognized as his reincarnation by believers of the Khilgantuy (Tsongol) datsan. While serving as Hambo Lama, D.-D. Itigelov made great efforts for educational activities, especially in the publication of religious and secular literature for the laity. For his work, he was repeatedly awarded medals by the Russian government and the governor of Eastern Siberia.
In 1913, Pandito Khambo Lama participated, by special invitation, in the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov and in the consecration of a Buddhist temple in the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg. The initiator of the construction of this temple, the famous Buddhist figure Agvan Dorzhiev, was the closest associate and ally of Hambo Lama D-D. Itigelova. A solemn prayer service for the health and well-being of the House of Romanov was held in the St. Petersburg datsan. After D.-D. Itigelov and A. Dorzhiev took photographs for memory. In the photo they are standing next to each other, along with them - the famous orientalist P.K. Kozlov and his wife, the later famous Buryat scientists Ts. Zhamtsarano, E.-D. Rinchino, the Mongolian prince Khanda-Dorzhi, the Kalmyk prince Tundupov. It is also known that Khambo Lama Itigelov took part in the work of the Second All-Buryat Congress, held in the Gusinoozersk datsan in July 1917. At Itigelov’s suggestion, the congress considered a new “Regulation on the Lamaist clergy of Eastern Siberia.”
Having left the post of Hambo Lama in 1917 due to illness, D.-D. Itigelov made a lot of efforts to preserve and prevent pogroms of datsans during the turning points in the history of our country. Hambo Lama died in 1927. As a true Buddhist practitioner, before his death, he gave the last instructions to his disciples and asked them to begin reciting “huga Namshi” for him, a special prayer - a good wish for the deceased. The disciples did not dare to say it in the presence of the living Teacher. Then Hambo Lama began to read this prayer himself, which was gradually picked up by his students. Reading the wish and being in a state of meditation on the Clear Light of the Mind, he left this life. Before this, he bequeathed to his students: “You will visit and look at my body in 30 years.”
In the lotus position, in which Hambo Lama was during meditation, the body was placed in a sarcophagus and buried in a bumkhan - a mausoleum in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area, where famous lamas were buried. One of them, who was sitting in the same cell with Agvan Dorzhiev during his arrest in 1938, recalled that back in 1921 Itigelov warned Dorzhiev, who at that moment returned from Mongolia: “You shouldn’t have returned here. It would be better if you stayed abroad. Arrests of lamas will soon begin. If you fall into their hands, they will not leave you alive." Agvan Dorzhiev asked in response: “Why don’t you go abroad?” To which Itigelov replied: “They won’t have time to take me.”
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MOSCOW, December 01, 2003 - Sensational results of research into the incorruptible body of a Buddhist lama were made public on Wednesday in Moscow. “Samples taken 75 years after burial showed that the organics of the skin, hair and nails of this deceased person are no different from the organics of a living person,” said Galina Ershova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
We are talking about the body of a famous religious figure named Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov, who was the head of Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1927. Before his death, he bequeathed to get his body out of the ground in about 30 years. Since then, exhumation has been carried out twice: in 1955 and 1973, and both times it turned out that the body of the Hambo Lama was not subject to decay. The same thing was discovered the third time, in 2002, after which doctors decided to study Itigelov’s body. “His joints bend, soft tissues are pressed through like a living person, and after opening the box in which the lama rested for 75 years, a fragrance began to emanate from there,” Ershova said.
According to her, “this completely contradicts the idea of what should happen to a person after 75 years of burial.” Ershova also noted that not a single similar fact has yet occurred not only in the history of Buddhism, but also in the history of mankind in general. The body of the late lama has been an object of worship among Buddhists in Buryatia for two years now. It is located in the Ivolginsky Temple of Ulan-Ude - the main Buddhist temple in Russia. A fragment of an interview with the current head of the Buddhist traditional sangha (community) of Russia, Damba Ayusheev, was also shown, who noted that this phenomenon “gave even more faith to believing Buddhists, removed doubts from doubters, and made atheists think.” Interfax reports this.
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I'M BACK AS I PROMISED
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His great-niece Yanzhima Vasilieva tells for the first time about the miracles around the Buryat saint.
This is how he passed away 78 years ago
Two and a half years have already passed since the body of the former head of Russian Buddhists, Khambo Lama Itigelov, who died 78 years ago, was dug up in a cemetery near Ulan-Ude (KP wrote about this on October 19, 2002, December 2 and 4, 2004) . Then, in September 2002, the medical experts present at the exhumation were shocked. Itigelov had all the signs of a living body: soft skin without any signs of decay, his nose, ears, closed eyes were preserved in place (the eyeballs were in place, they had not leaked out), his fingers and elbow joints were mobile. The body smelled fragrant. There is no unpleasant smell to this day. The Lama did not lie like a mummy, but sat in a cedar box in the lotus position.
Itigelov died in an unusual way,” says Yanzhima Dabaevna about his unique ancestor. - After he resigned as head of the Buddhists of Russia in 1917, he spent ten years improving his spirit. And on June 15, 1927, he gathered his students, sat in the lotus position and asked them to read the Buddhist prayer “Good wishes for the departing,” which is usually addressed to the deceased. The disciples were surprised: “Why should we read this prayer to you, the living one?” Then he read it himself and stopped breathing. This amazed even the monks initiated into the secrets of meditation. “Before leaving, Itigelov said: Come to me in 30 years. Look at my body. And in 75 years I will return to you.” The monks dug up the lama in 1957. And, seeing that the body had not decomposed, they buried it again. If it had decomposed, then according to Buddhist laws the body would have been burned.
In September 2002, the lama actually returned. Now he sits under a glass cover in the Ivolginsky datsan (monastery). And it has not yet rotted - at normal room temperature.
All Buddhists believe that God has returned,” says Yanzhima Dabaevna. - For us this is a shrine. You can't treat him like an ordinary person. And they still say to me: what right did you have to allow scientists access to the body?!
HIS BRAIN IS PULSING
Yanzhima Dabaevna is not only a relative of the great saint, but also the director of the Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov Institute, created in 2002, whose goal is to preserve the legacy of the “resurrected god.” And as a leader, she considered it correct to scientifically record the phenomenon, but without opening the body. They collected hair that had fallen from the llama's head, peeled skin, and trimmed four milligrams of a toenail. These samples allowed the head of the personal identification department of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Viktor Zvyagin, and professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Galina Ershova, to examine them. The results obtained stunned the experts themselves: spectral analysis did not reveal anything in the organic tissues of the body that would distinguish them from the tissues of a living person!
“He’s just like you and me, only his eyes are closed,” Itigelova’s great-niece convinces me.
Professor Ershova, for example, touched his hands and felt their warmth. And the monk who accompanied Ershova, in her presence, took off the hat from Itigelov’s head, wiped the sweat from his forehead (!) and wiped it on Ershova’s hand with the words: “The Teacher is sweating...” The woman was shocked. There are even witnesses who claim that the lama opened his eyes.
It seems that the internal organs are intact, experts say. But the blood changed from liquid to jelly-like. But it is there, which a person who died 78 years ago should not have. And the very famous chiropractor Alexey Azheev, who has been observing the body since 2002, even felt the pulsation of the brain in his own special way. In his opinion, in the living, the cerebral hemispheres produce 3-4 “bursts” per minute, and in the motionless Itigelov - 1 per minute.
A unique phenomenon that has no analogues in the world, of course, haunts scientists, laments Yanzhima Dabaevna. “And after they had already established that his cells were alive, they decided to examine the body even deeper: x-ray and do tomography. When Itigelov left, he did not give any instructions in his will for the examination of his body. And we, Buddhists, obey the word of the Teacher. Therefore, on January 3, 2005, all experiments in the “Itigelov case” were officially closed.
- But why don’t you allow research to be carried out that might just confirm the miracle?
Itigelov is not an exhibit for experiments. And we don’t need to prove anything: we know that he is alive.
THE STETHOSCOPE WAS NOT APPLIED TO THE CHEST
- Doesn't a llama's skin turn black over time?
No. Sometimes it just gets hard. On November 4 last year, Professor Ershova and I touched his face - it was very soft and smooth. And after a while it hardened. Doctor Alexey Azheev explains this by the processes occurring inside any living organism. There is a term “washerwoman’s hands”. When your hands are constantly in water, they should swell, but they shrink. This is the body balancing so as not to lose moisture. Itigelov has the same effect: his weight either increases or decreases.
- Are you still weighing it?
Yes. He weighs an average of 41 kg, but periodically loses or gains one kilogram.
- Does the heart work?
I will not say. The stethoscope was not applied to the chest.
We still don’t know who and when poured salt into the cedar box with the llama. It is not a fact that this was done from the day of burial. In addition, the salt in some places harmed his skin - it dried it out.
A MAN WHO HAS ACHIEVED ENLIGHTENMENT
- Yanzhima Dabaevna, how do you yourself explain the incorruptibility of your relative’s body?
He was able to achieve the state that the famous Buddhist monk Bogdo Zonhawa wrote about in his work “Praise of Dependent Originations” back in the 15th century. And Itigelov wrote a commentary on this book - about how to practically achieve this extraordinary state, which in our terminology is called “emptiness”. And gain supernatural abilities.
- What paranormal abilities did the lama have?
For example, according to the surviving official police report, Itigelov on horseback once galloped across the surface of White Lake (now called Sulfatnoye), as if on a paved road. He could move instantly: as soon as the door was closed behind him, he immediately found himself a kilometer away from it, turning into a dot.
- How did he achieve this very “emptiness”?
I asked this question to the current head of Buddhists, Khambo Lama Ayusheev. He replied: “If I knew how to do this, then I would not be in this world of suffering.”
REINCARNATION?
Famous actor Richard Gere (center) with Lama Itigelov’s grandniece Yanzhima Vasilyeva and Buda Lama, who was present at the exhumation of the incorruptible body.
But there is another mystery. Buddhists believe that Itigelov's second coming is due to the fact that he underwent reincarnation - the transmigration of souls. They say that Itigelov was possessed by the soul of the first head of the Buddhist church, Pandito Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia.
Interesting figures convince us of this,” Yanzhima’s story continues. - Zayaev was born in 1702. He lived exactly 75 years and died in 1777. But, leaving this life, he said to his disciples: I will return to you. And in 1852, exactly (!) 75 years later, Khambo Lama Itigelov was born. He also lives for 75 years and leaves us with the words “I will return to you in 75 years.” As a result, this mystical number is repeated four times - 75 years.
- Your ancestor studied pharmacology and Tibetan medicine for more than twenty years. Maybe he invented the elixir of immortality?
If it were that easy, many llamas would be able to use this recipe.
- How do you feel when you pass by your ancestor?
It’s as if you enter a dark room and suddenly feel that there is someone there - warm, alive, feeling.
Seven times a year, on major Buddhist holidays, huge queues line up at Itigelov. These days for 2005 are: April 24, May 23, July 10, September 27, October 24, November 26 and January 29, 2006. More than 70 thousand believers have already visited the incorrupt body. Some even feel his touch during worship.
We are shocked by the fact, explains Vasilyeva, that when leaving his will, Itigelov knew that after decades his body would remain incorruptible.
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WORSHIP THE “INCORPOSIBLE BODY”
(“Vesti-Buryatia”)
In 2005 there will be only 7 days when believers can worship the “incorruptible body” of Khambo Lama Itigelov. The nearest date is February 8, the eve of the new year according to the lunar calendar.
Meanwhile, the Hambo Lama Institute continues to study the legacy of the most prominent hierarch of the Buddhist church. The Itigelov phenomenon is studied not only from a religious perspective, but also from a natural science perspective. And here there are more questions than answers; after much research, scientists admitted that they were unable to explain the phenomenon of the “incorruptible body.” Numerous analyzes only complicated the situation. Representatives of the Buddhist traditional sangha and the Hambo Lama Itigelov Institute spoke about the conclusions that eminent Moscow scientists came to at a meeting with journalists.
The director of the Khambo Lama Itigelov Institute, Yanzhima Vasilyeva, explained that tissue samples of the “incorruptible body” are now being studied using the nuclear resonance method, and this concludes the scientific study of Itigelov’s phenomenon. Scientists have not been able to explain the mystery of the Buddhist cleric, whose body was removed from the ground 75 years after burial. They are unanimous on only one thing: the Itigelov phenomenon is a sensation not only in the history of Buddhism, but also of humanity in general. The research was led by the head of the department of personal identification of the center of forensic medical examination of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Professor Viktor Zvyagin. He stated that research shows that the body of Hambo Lama corresponds to the body of a person who died 12 hours ago, at the same time, when one of the scientists approached him, she clearly felt hot hands.
Zvyagin and his colleagues, with the permission of the Buddhist clergy, studied samples of tissue from the “incorruptible body”: hair that fell from the Lama’s head, skin flakes and a nail cut. They were compared with samples of living people, including Professor Zvyagin himself. Based on the results, it was concluded that the protein structure was not damaged and corresponded to a living person. The results of the study of the chemical composition of the body were also stunning. Scientists could not explain the fact that Itigelov has no or negligible amounts of chemical elements.
The body of Khambo Lama Itigelov has been an object of worship for Buddhists in Buryatia, Russia, and the world for two years now. It is located in the Ivolginsky datsan, in a room without special equipment, in a glass sarcophagus, which rather protects from dust than from time. The Lama's body is not under his control - no changes in 2 years. His chief caretaker, Bimbo Lama, is almost always near the teacher. After a certain time, according to the season, he changes his clothes, and by this period the joints become more mobile. Bimbo Lama noted that when changing clothes, a fragrance emanates from the teacher’s body.
Lamas talk about many miracles happening around the “Precious Body”. Including about the magical healings of people who managed to see Hambo Lama Itigelov.
This year, the sangha named only 7 days when it will be possible to worship his body, the nearest one being the eve of the new year according to the lunar calendar.
I. Petonova
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PRESS CONFERENCE
ON THE PHENOMENON OF LAMA ITIGELOV AND THE PROBLEM OF IMMORTALITY
On November 29, 2006 at 15.00 in Moscow at the Russian State University for the Humanities a press conference was held “The World Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov and the Problem of Immortality”, the results of the latest studies of the fact of preservation of the properties of a living organism after 75 years, officially registered for the first time by the state forensic medical examination, were published. years after his burial.
The unique story of “life after death” of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov was told in detail by the head of the Department of Sustainable Innovative Development of the University of Dubna, Professor Boris Bolshakov this summer at the UNESCO Baikal Conference: “Itigelov is a native of Buryatia, a famous religious figure named Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov (1852-1927), who was the head of Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1917. For understanding and assessing Itigelov’s current state, it is extremely important that he passed away while performing certain ritual actions: having gathered his close disciples, he sat in the lotus position and asked them to perform the Buddhist prayer “Good wishes to the departing." The students were surprised that they should read this prayer to a living person. Then Itigelov read the prayer himself. And before that, he left a will to his students: saying that he was leaving for a thousand years, he asked to be raised in 75 years to make sure that he was alive. In secular terms, it is quite possible that he wanted to demonstrate on himself a model, some example of how one can live after death. And, apparently, he believed that a thousand years is enough time for people to figure it out, to be able to understand the mechanisms and ways to achieve this goal.
In September 2002, the opening of the sarcophagus in which Itigelov was located took place in the presence of the leadership of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia and medical experts. Everyone was surprised by the excellent preservation of the body despite time and the irreversibility of physical decay. Itigelov was still sitting in the same lotus position that he had taken while meditating when he passed away. He was not only recognizable in appearance, but he had all the signs of a living body: soft skin without any shades of decay, his nose, ears, closed eyes, fingers, and so on were preserved in place. I do not know of a single similar fact officially registered by the modern state, not only in the history of Buddhism, but also in the history of mankind in general.
It is also interesting that Itigelov was born exactly 75 years after the death of his teacher. The first head of the Buddhist church, Pandito Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia, leaving this life, said to his disciples: I will return to you. And in 1852, exactly 75 years later, Khambo Lama Itigelov was born. He also lives 75 years and leaves with the words: “I will return to you in 75 years.”
After opening the sarcophagus, Hambo Lama was transported to the Ivolginsky datsan (a datsan is a complex of Buddhist buildings that unites individual dagans - temples), changed clothes and placed on the second floor in the same lotus position. Days, months and years passed, but his body remained incorrupt. Pathologists who came to Datsan were amazed - the preservation of the body contradicted all the official laws of nature. After much deliberation, the current head of Russian Buddhists decided to give scientists the opportunity to examine Itigelov’s body. The examination was carried out by the head of the personal identification department of the Russian Bureau of Forensic Medicine, Professor Viktor Zvyagin. He collected hair that had fallen from the llama's head, exfoliated skin, and trimmed a few milligrams of a toenail for testing. The results obtained stunned the expert: spectral analysis did not reveal anything in the organic tissues of the body that would distinguish them from the tissues of a living person. In addition to the official forensic medical examination led by Professor Zvyagin, many other experts from different countries came to Datsan, each time various analyzes were carried out, but everyone came to the conclusion that Itigelov’s body corresponded to all the parameters of the body of a living person, including eyes. But scientists have not yet been able to verify that his brain is working. There are different points of view on this matter."
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ITIGELS AND EMPTINESS
(“Novaya Gazeta” dated April 6, 2007)
Few people want to know the truth about Itigelov, which breaks the usual picture of the world. People judge by themselves. It is important for them to prove to themselves that everyone is the same, that they can only live the way they do. People would be pleased to hear that Pushkin fought duels “for his image.” That the New Testament was written to advertise Jerusalem to tourists. That Buddha is just an effective PR project...
Russia is not alive thanks to oil prices. And Gazprom has nothing to do with it, and even V.V. Putin. We are saved by old women praying in churches, lighting candles for the Mother of God with their last pennies. But Russia is leaving the Far East and Siberia, and Russians are leaving Buryatia. There are fewer and fewer Orthodox grandmothers here. Why hasn’t this land been torn apart for resources by China, Japan and the USA? Buryat lamas know, of course, the answer, but they do not like to rant. They only mention that the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov, upon taking office, swore allegiance to Emperor Nicholas II. And everything that Itigelov did was sacred for Buryat Buddhists.
Not Buddhists, but State Duma deputies, discussing the Itigelov phenomenon, stated that Russia owes it to him for both the safety of its eastern borders and the stabilization of the economy.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who came to the Ivolginsky datsan, said that Itigelov “continues to serve Russia,” and Vice Admiral Valery Dorogin, a Duma deputy, called him “a component of national security.” Scientists at the University of Dubna, who have been studying Itigelov’s phenomenon for a long time, stated that the mental body of the Hambo Lama extends over 18-20 thousand kilometers. And they associated sacred phenomena with this force, which are increasingly appearing on the territory of ethnic Buryatia.
It is useless to refute or argue the validity of such statements; people have always been looking for some “fifth element”, a magical link in the chain of things and events, capable of saving and preserving here, in this world. The rational mind means absolutely nothing here, because it is helpless. I’ll just record: when Itigelov returned to us, there really was a certain calming down of Russia - the end of the war in Chechnya, local civil wars in large cities over property. Oil prices again. Why did the president suddenly remove the pipeline from Lake Baikal, and is it the president? As for the persecution of the oligarchs, Itigelov warned in his message to his descendants: “Wealth, insanely collected and accumulated, will turn into a special poison.”
EARTHLY LIFE OF ITIGELOV
Since we will talk about things that will seem unreal to people not familiar with Buddhism, I will say right away about my sources of information. Yanzhima Vasilyeva, grand-niece of Hambo Lama Itigelov and director of the Institute named after him, talking about the earthly journey of her great relative, relies on the testimonies of fellow countrymen she collected, fifty archival sources, state and monastic. She immediately warned that there are three versions of Itigelov’s biography: from birth, 1852, to 1895. All are archivally confirmed, but contradict each other.
Information was also received from Ganjur Lama, rector of the Buddhist University, Bimba Lama, guardian of Itigelov’s precious body, and XXIV Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev. Each of them brought bright colors to the story of Itigelov’s earthly lives.
So, it is believed that Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was born in 1852. Nevertheless, the lamas suggest that the boy was born immediately at the age of five. No one knows or knew who his mother is. The Buryats have always had a very careful attitude towards their genealogy; they remembered and recorded up to 30 generations. True, in the male line, women did not fit in. And the family of the father is known, but there is zero information about the mother. The boy grew up an orphan - a unique case, since among the Buryats all children left without parents were raised by relatives. The advantage of living from home. Khambo Lama Ayusheev believes that Itigelov is of unearthly origin.
The boy was herding other people's cattle and said that he would be Hambo Lama. They laughed at him. One day he appeared riding a bull with a stake in his hand. There was a human skull on the stake. The lamas became aware of what had happened, and they predicted a special fate and great destiny for the child. Indeed, everything was predetermined. As a youth, he went to study at the Aninsky datsan, and his teachers were people for whom, when they were just born, Tibetan lamas came specially. These children were the earthly incarnations of the Buddha of Longevity and the Buddha of Wisdom. The monks of the Aninsky datsan responded with a polite refusal: “The gods themselves know where to be born.” And his teacher was the shireete (abbot) of the Aninsky datsan, the earthly incarnation of the Buddha of compassion. He assigned the student a monthly allowance of 5 rubles and obliged the residents of the surrounding villages to pay this money one by one. For more than 15 years, residents of Oibont also paid a fee for the release of Dasha Dorzho from military service - he was considered to come from the Cossack class.
And when in 1911 Itigelov was destined to become the head of the Lamaist clergy of Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia, suddenly all the obstacles to his election were resolved at once. Many people around - from lamas to the governor of Eastern Siberia - perform actions that help Itigelov’s fate to come true. Ayusheev: “These are incredible things. It feels like everything and everyone was subordinated to fulfilling the mission entrusted to Itigelov.”
According to lamas, during his lifetime Itigelov said that he knew about his three reincarnations. Thus, for believers, he was undeniably a rebirth of the first Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia. Zayaev was born in 1702. He lived for 75 years and, when leaving, promised his students to return. In 1852, 75 years after Zayaev’s death, Itigelov was born. He also lives to be 75 years old. And comes back to us again after 75 years. That is, the number 75 is repeated four times. When Itigelov assumed the position of Hambo Lama, parishioners of the Tsongol datsan, which was flooded during floods, turned to him with a request to determine a new place to build a temple. He indicated the place, saying that Zayaev’s bell and vajra were buried there. And there they really found his personal belongings and subsequently built a new datsan.
Two years ago, Lama Zhargal Dugdanov, among thousands of publications stored in the Devazhin-dugan of the Ivolginsky datsan, discovered a previously unknown manuscript by Itigelov. On five pages in Tibetan, he talks about his 12 reincarnations over several millennia: five in India, five in Tibet and two in Buryatia. Itigelov tells how in a past life, as Zayaev, he alternately presented offerings in the form of gold, silver and coral to the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama and Buddhist deities and received information from them about his previous lives. Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev: “If there had been even one inaccuracy in this book, he would never have been able to achieve an eternal body.”
Nicholas II and the royal family revered Itigelov (Buryat lamas, let me remind you, healed crowned persons), he had many Russian awards. His native people, the Buryats, began to idolize him during his lifetime. In 1903, when he was appointed shireete of the Yangazhinsky datsan, he donated his entire fortune to the construction of new dugans in honor of the soldiers who died in the Russo-Japanese War. Three hundred Yangazhin Cossacks received his blessing when they went to the front of the First World War, and none of them died, everyone returned home. Itigelov creates the “All-Buryat Society” to help the front. Having united 120 religious and secular persons, Itigelov collected money for the wounded and their families, organized infirmaries, and sent emchi lamas to front-line hospitals. On Orthodox Easter 1915, soldiers received parcels from Buddhist Buryatia.
Itigelov had no illusions about Soviet power. Unlike his colleagues, who hoped that the Buddhist religion would allow him to live peacefully with the new regime. Alas, the lamas soon found out that the Soviet government viewed everything from the perspective of two extremes: the eternal and the non-eternal, matter and spirit, materialism and idealism. And the communists chose one of the extremes (we, as the heirs of the Bolsheviks, are also trying to understand: Itigelov is alive or dead, we cannot understand any other state). Buddhists profess the principle of the middle, free from extreme judgments: neither love, nor hatred - only compassion.
It was not possible to coexist with the Bolsheviks, some of the lamas left for Tibet, others faced arrests and executions - everything was as Itigelov predicted. Buddhist shrines were destroyed. The Yangazhinsky datsan was erased into dust - the steppe was white with it, with scraps of manuscripts. And in the Aninsky datsan, in the ruins of the blown up central dugan, a slaughterhouse was set up.
But all this happened after Itigelov left. He himself did not try to emigrate; he said about the commissars: “They won’t take me.” And so it happened.
There are many legends about the arrests of Buryat yogis. The NKVD came many times for one of the lamas. Guzhi Dashinima sat in full view of them and read, but they did not see him. When they got tired of these games of hide and seek, they began to threaten the lama’s students, and then he decided to give himself into the hands of the new government. However, soon the guards found him dead - the lama, having entered samadhi, left his body. Ganjur Lama told me: in those days it was still in the order of things - lamas flew, passed through walls, instantly covered enormous distances, walked and rode horses on water as well as on dry land.
The stories about the supernatural powers of the Buryat yogis can be treated as legends, but Yanzhima refers, for example, to the surviving official police report. It follows from it that in May 1917 (revolutionary outrages had already occurred) returning front-line soldiers in the Tamchinsky datsan staged a brawl and drinking. Itigelov, having learned about this, rushed to the datsan - on a horse he galloped along the surface of White Lake (now called Sulfatnoe) as if on a paved road. Then he jumped from the steep shore of Goose Lake, cut through the water surface and rushed straight to the datsan along the dry bottom. When he jumped ashore, the waters closed behind him. The rising waves washed away some of the rowdies who had gathered in the datsan and cleared the desecrated territory. Those who remained, seeing Hambo Lama, fled in fear.
Itigelov, a practitioner of the highest level, was said to be able to move instantly: as soon as the door was closed behind him, he immediately found himself a kilometer away from it, turning into a dot.
In 1917, Itigelov left the post of Pandito Khambo Lama. He wrote a message to his descendants; it was discovered only in 1998 in the library of the Ivolginsky datsan. He knew that he would return in an eternal body. On June 15, 1927, Itigelov, in a state of meditation, plunged into nirvana. Before this, he turned to the monks with a request to read him a special prayer - good wishes for the departing. It is used to see off the deceased so that the soul leaving the body finds its karmic destiny. The embarrassed students could not decide to pray this prayer while the Teacher was alive, so Itigelov began it himself. The monks were forced to pick her up. In the lotus position, in which Hambo Lama stopped breathing, the body was buried in a bumkhan (cedar box) in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area. Before leaving for good, he gave clear instructions on how to bury him and when to visit him - for the first time in 30 years.
LIFE AFTER DEATH
A group of lamas raised Itigelov’s body in 1955 - two years earlier than his will. The procedure was forced - a severe storm in the village of Zun Orongoi tore off the roofs, and the head of the Buddhist clergy decided to carry out the necessary rituals before the specified date. Convinced that Itigelov’s body was unchanged, the lamas changed his clothes and bumkhan. The same ritual was performed in 1973. Then it was associated with a severe flood, which cut off the Ivolginsky district from Ulan-Ude for a month.
The current guardian of Itigelov's body, Bimba Lama, is very friendly, but not particularly talkative, believing that only after his departure to the other world will it be possible to make “his secret things” public. Nevertheless, he does not hide - he always kept in mind the idea that the current generation of lamas needs to find Itigelov’s sarcophagus again and check the condition of his body. He saw in a dream his meeting with the great Teacher. The discovery of his message only confirmed Bimba Lama's desire. He found a person who knew exactly where the Teacher was buried - the grandfather of Amgalan Dabaev, born in 1914. On September 7, 2002, he indicated the burial place to Ayusheev. It is interesting that Pandito Khambo Lama went to this place on his own; grandfather approached him by a different route.
The lamas received the consent of relatives for exhumation and on September 10 they dug up a box containing the body, covered with salt, at a depth of one and a half meters. The forensic expert present, after examining the body, refused to do anything with it, since he had never seen anything like this. And he asked to create a commission. The Lama was not only recognizable in appearance, he had all the signs of a living body: elastic skin without any signs of decay, his nose, ears, eyes (they were closed), and fingers were preserved in place. All his joints were bent, including the smallest ones on his fingers. The teeth, hair, eyelashes and eyebrows were perfectly preserved. Itigelov was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan.
Bimba Tsybikov, born in 1910, candidate of historical sciences, who had seen the lama before 1927, was invited to the identification. According to him, Khamba Lama was short and very thin, and has now become even smaller. But he immediately recognized Itigelov’s facial features - they had not changed at all.
From the “act of external examination of the exhumed corpse”, signed on September 11 by three leading specialists of the Republican Center for Forensic Medical Examination: “Any extraneous aromatic, resinous or putrefactive odors from the contents of the box and from the corpse were not detected... The soft tissues of the corpse are of a tightly elastic consistency, mobility in the joints is preserved . The scalp and nail plates are preserved. The position of the corpse when removing it from the box is maintained without the use of any supporting or fixing devices. “No traces indicating a previous opening of the body cavities for the purpose of possible embalming or preservation, as well as any damage, traces of previous injuries, surgical interventions, or diseases were found on the body of the corpse.”
First, a sarcophagus was built for the llama from double-glazed windows, then it was decided to order two refrigerators from the Krasnoyarsk Biryusa plant. However, I didn’t have to plug them into the outlet - there was no need. Itigelov does not need to be protected from time. Glass only protects against dust. The monks say that sometimes it fogs up from the inside. Bimba Lama changes Itigelov's clothes, and he takes care of his body, wiping it with a towel. The Hambo Lama's clothes were returned from the Museum of the History of Buryatia. The new robes were sewn by a seamstress from Verkhnyaya Ivolga. Dr. Alexei Azheev says he felt Itigelov roaring with laughter as he and his colleagues measured his body. (In a datsan, you don’t always understand who they are talking about to you now - about a long-dead lama or about a living one. About whose emotions, whose laughter, whose lively reaction they are talking about.)
In December 2004, Viktor Zvyagin, head of the personal identification department of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, took part in the re-examination. In addition, for examination in Moscow, Zvyagin was given samples of hair, skin, which itself had peeled off, and a cut of a nail from the llama’s foot. From his comments: “The condition of the tissues is such that it fully corresponds to the intravital characteristics. We are not aware of cases of such preservation, this is a kind of scientific mystery... In many respects, the body of the Khamba Lama gives the impression of the body of a living person... It was a big surprise for me when we did infrared spectroscopy of tissue samples and were convinced that their composition was not much different from the composition of the same tissues in a living person... No artificial methods known to science to maintain such a state of the body such as mummification, embalming, etc. were not used in this case. There are no traces of an autopsy, removal of the brain and internal organs, we did not find any injections, cuts or similar influences.” Military doctors studied the cell nucleus using the nuclear resonance method. Their conclusion: the cell is alive and the nucleus is intact.
ADVENTURES OF THE SOUL
The Dalai Lama said that Itigelov has not yet achieved Buddhahood, but is moving towards it. And Bogdo Gegen IX believes that the lama has already gone beyond samsara, having stopped rebirths. Meanwhile, people who have been observing the llama over the years note that his hair has grown and darkened and his skin color has changed somewhat - in some places it has turned brown, in others it has become golden. To my question whether this is a precedent in Buddhism, Ganjur Lama answered negatively. Attempts to preserve the bodies of teachers have been known since the Middle Ages. Having decided to leave this life, they can enter a state of samadhi and purify the body so that after death it is preserved.
All we have to do is take our word for it: in samadhi the vital activity of the “gross body” stops completely, or life processes slow down millions of times. This happens under the conscious control of the yogi - his “subtle body” continues to live. In other words, Itigelov slowed down, almost stopped time. The body only seems to be dead, vital energy is left in it, and it must be protected from external influences. Therefore, before immersing in samadhi, the monks retired to caves inaccessible to others. Who has not heard the legends about Tibetan caves in which frozen yogis have been “sitting” for many centuries?
I also heard a slightly different explanation (in general, as you understand, the hierarchs of Buddhism demonstrate an enviable pluralism of opinions regarding Itigelov’s condition). His soul, which has achieved enlightenment, is outside the body, but has a connection with it. And - it can return.
Be that as it may, humanity has not previously been able to verify the success of preserving the body unchanged after death. There are no analogues of incorruptibility that would exist today or would be known about them from archival records. The only example mentioned by both Yanzhima and Ganjur Lama is Bogdo Zonkhava. On the eighth day after leaving this world, his hair began to grow, and he was placed in a mortar. It was located in Lhasa, and in 1959 the Chinese military blew it up.
By the way, the lamas say that based on the work of Bogdo Zonhava “Praise to Dependent Origination” (the root text on the emptiness of all phenomena), Itigelov made “a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of emptiness and achieved a direct, practical comprehension of emptiness - the great reality of all phenomena.” Well, as if it were simpler... Expert Elena Aleksandrovskaya reported that in the tissue samples of Itigelov’s body there is no iron, zinc, silver, iodine, or there is a negligible amount of them. “It feels like there’s emptiness inside! Where did everything go? She suggests that this perfect emptiness has suppressed all bacteria.
True, the Itigelov Institute forwarded her report to the Russian Academy of Sciences for evaluation, and they responded that this was a very rough analysis and the error was large. And since the scientists began to violate the agreements - such a study was not planned, on January 3, 2005, it was decided to return the tissue samples to their homeland. This was accompanied by an ugly story: Professor Zvyagin was warned that a photo of the great lama without clothes (it was allowed to be taken for anthropological research) should not be leaked to the tabloid press. But that's exactly what happened.
Leaving a will, Itigelov knew that decay would not touch his body. But the trick is that this emptiness is not only comprehended and meaningful, the Hambo Lama from it, independent of our time and space, monitors our world and talks to us. In January 2003, he suddenly began to lose weight, and behind the glass where he was, the humidity for some reason went off scale beyond 96%. This went on for three days, during which those around them wondered what to do. It has always been believed that Itigelov sank four sacred vessels into the ground in 1922. Jewels, medicinal herbs, sacred things were kept there - in order to harmonize relations with the owner of that area (in Buryatia, the forces of nature are spiritualized: for example, whatever mountain you drive past, they will definitely tell you who its owner is - a man or a woman, and why the owner of this mountain , to which earthly women went to pray during the war, allowed the townspeople's dachas to approach her, and the owner of that mountain over there allowed only the military to place locators on the top).
So, in order to clarify information about these “earth stabilizers,” the lamas urgently went to the old people, and one 90-year-old grandmother suddenly said that there were actually not four such vessels, but five. When he, the fifth, was found and ritual actions were performed, Itigelov’s weight immediately returned to its previous 41 kg, and the humidity behind the glass returned to normal. In May 2003, the lamas raised another vessel and a copy of it was loaded under the Itigelov Palace under construction in the datsan. And the original, having been updated, was returned to its place.
Today it is believed that the great lama wrote more than 50 philosophical books. The majority are under sacred names; their authorship continues to be established even now, translated (into Russian it still turns out poorly, the meaning is lost), and attempts are made to decipher and interpret. Not all manuscripts have yet been found. Ganzhur Lama believes that Itigelov himself decides when to give them to us. He watches when we ripen for them.
But the main book, the lamas say, is his body. A textbook that clearly tells about human capabilities.
Recently, Itigelov opened his eyes twice. His institute says that it has not yet been clarified what this is connected with. On February 16, just minutes before Hambo Lama’s meeting with the people, it happened again. This is the testimony of Konstantin Zhalsaraev, he was nearby. From that day on, he decided to work at the Itigelov Institute as a volunteer.
And further. During my stay in the Ivolginsky datsan, it became obvious to me: the lamas deliberately do not make public a huge amount of information. They can be understood. They protect both Itigelov and their lives from our “good” world.
They already know: people judge by themselves. It is important for them to prove to themselves that everyone is the same, that they can only live the way they do. People would be pleased to hear that Pushkin fought duels “for his image.” That the New Testament was written to advertise Jerusalem to tourists. That Buddha is just an effective PR project.
Few people want to know the truth about Itigelov, which breaks the usual picture of the world. Well, in this world, unlike Itigelov, we have to live and die.
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DID BUDDHA FORECAST ITIGELOV?
Scientists and theologians are trying to uncover the mystery of the incorruptible body of the Hambo Lama
The international conference “The Phenomenon of Pandito Hambo Lama Itigelov” opened on Monday and will be held from July 2 to 3 in the Ivolginsky Datsan in Buryatia. It is dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the acquisition of the body of Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov. But in general, the conference is considered by the scientists gathered at it as “an attempt to understand the phenomenon of Erdeni munhe bee” (the sacred incorruptible body) of the lama.
According to the director of the Itigelov Institute, Yanzhima Vasilyeva, the conference will consider about 20 reports in five sections: in addition to the phenomenon of the Lama’s incorruptible body, scientists will solve “questions about deciphering Itigelov’s message, his influence on others, as well as the philosophical aspects of the existence of Buddhism in Russia.”
In addition, the line of continuity from the pandito khambo lama will be revealed: we recall that in 2003, Itigelov’s manuscript was found in the library of the Ivolginsky datsan, in which he described his 12 existences on earth. “The book reliably describes Itigelov’s five stays in India, five in Tibet and two in Buryatia,” says Yanzhima Vasilyeva.
It is expected that representatives of the Dubna University will take part in the conference. It is they who own the version that the phenomenon of the Pandito Khambo Lama is associated with the unique confluence point of the basins of the Amur, Lena and Yenisei rivers, which was established in 1977 by a geography teacher at the Kusochi secondary school in the Mogoituy district of Zhalsarain.
There is no other point in the world's watershed where the world's three largest rivers meet. In 1983, by decision of the Russian Geographical Society, this point was given the status of a state natural monument and given a name in honor of the outstanding researcher of Transbaikalia P.S. Pallas.
In addition, the statements of Buddha Shakyamuni that “Buddhism will receive a new impetus for development at the northernmost point of its spread, which is Buryatia,” intersect with this conclusion. It is also of great importance that on the territory of the republic in the Egituisky datsan there is a lifetime statue of Buddha - “Zandan Zhuu”, which is two and a half millennia old.
Time will tell what conclusion scientists and clergy will come to after today’s conference. However, more than 150 representatives of Buddhist and secular science came to Buryatia to talk about the phenomenon of the incorruptible body, as well as discuss the problems of modern Buddhism. Traditionally, the event opens with the erection of the mandala of Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov.
Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was born in 1852. In 1911, Dashi was elected XII Pandito Khambo Lama, after which he was the head of Russian Buddhists until 1917. In the summer of 1927, Itigelov, in a state of meditation, plunged into nirvana. In the lotus position, in which he stopped breathing, the body in a cedar box was immersed in the ground, to a depth of one and a half meters.
On September 11, 2002, in the Ivolginsky datsan, the sarcophagus with the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov (1852-1927) was opened. The body was removed from the "bumkhan" - the lama's burial place in the area of Khukhe-Zurkhen ("Blue Heart" - Bur.) in the presence of the leadership and clergy of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia. 75 years after the placement, the body of the Great Lama was preserved in excellent condition - in the very lotus position that Itigelov took when, while meditating, he performed a miracle. Physiological processes take place in it. Scientists testify: there is no explanation for this. Pilgrims come to him from thousands of miles away. Some call him Buddha.
The central spiritual administration of the Sangha of Russia decided to create all conditions for the further preservation of the precious relic, since, according to the Gelek-Balbar Lama, “worship of the body of a yogi can bring great benefit to all believers.” Since the time of the students of Tsonghawa, the founder of the Gelukpa school (XV century), there have been attempts to preserve the bodies of teachers, but not all were successful. We can say that the Buddhists of Buryatia are lucky.
By the decision of the Central Spiritual Administration of the Sangha of Russia in 2003, the construction of the temple-palace of the Hambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov “Etigel Khambyn Ordon” began in the Ivolginsky datsan (Republic of Buryatia). According to the project, in this temple-palace the main shrine will be the incorruptible body of the Hambo Lama and statues of Buddhas made by Buryat masters of past centuries. Today, the incorrupt body of Dasha Itigelov is on the upper floors of the main dugan of the Ivolginsky datsan.
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SCIENTISTS STUDY THE “EVER LIVING” LAMA
About 150 scientists and theologians from Europe, Mongolia, and regions of Russia take part in the first international conference “The Phenomenon of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov,” which takes place at the official residence in the Ivolginsky Datsan - the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia.
The phenomenon of the “eternally living” lama began to be discussed in September 2002, when the mummy of the head of Russian Buddhist clergy, Pandit Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov XII, was dug up in one of the cemeteries in Buryatia. The sensation was that the body of the lama, buried in 1927, not only did not decompose, but in general Itigelov looked like he was alive. Republican forensic experts who examined the body could not believe that three quarters of a century had passed since the death. According to legend, in 1927, 75-year-old Pandita Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov XII sat in the lotus position, meditated and stopped showing signs of life. In the same lotus position, the monks placed him in a cedar box, covered his head with salt and buried him in the cemetery. Before his death, the lama ordered that his body be removed from the grave twice: after 30 and after 75 years.
The first time they dug up the llama two years ahead of schedule, they made sure that nothing had happened to the body, and buried it again. In 1973, Itigelov’s grave was opened again. For the third time (now finally) the llama was removed from the ground in 2002. The body was transported to the Ivolginsky datsan and placed in a glass sarcophagus. After some time, forensic experts were allowed to see the incorrupt body and drew up an external examination report of the corpse. The protocol compiled by the experts, in particular, states: “... the skin is light gray in color, dry, pliable when pressed with fingers. The soft tissues of the corpse are of a tightly elastic consistency, mobility in the joints is preserved. The scalp and nail plates are preserved. The position of the corpse when removing it from the box is maintained without the use of any supporting or fixing devices. No traces indicating a previous opening of the body cavities for the purpose of possible embalming or preservation, as well as damage, traces of previous injuries, surgical interventions, diseases were not found on the body of the corpse.” Later, scientists began to more thoroughly study the lama’s body. The head of the personal identification department of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, V. Zvyagin, and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University G. Ershova, were able to examine Itigelov’s body in the most detail, who stated that they had never encountered such a phenomenon. “Samples taken 75 years after burial showed that the organics of the skin, hair and nails of this deceased person were no different from the organics of a living person,” says Galina Ershova. One of the experts, I. Vologdin, said: “This has never happened in my practice... The soft tissues were perfectly preserved. The mobility of the joints also remained. And most importantly, the pose is preserved. This is not a mummy, these are not relics. This is an extraordinary event that we cannot yet explain.”
Experts also established that no preservatives were used to preserve Itigelov’s body. A study of the cell using the nuclear resonance method showed that the nucleus is intact, and the state of the cytoplasm is more likely to be characteristic of living tissue. However, V. Zvyagin, answering a question from journalists whether the Hambo Lama could still be considered a living person, answered negatively: “No. If the body temperature is below 20 degrees Celsius, the person is dead..."
Despite the fact that the case with the body of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov is unique, the lama is still not the only “incorruptible” Buddhist. In the courtyard of the Thien Dau Temple, 23 km from Hanoi, the mummy of the abbot of the Vu Khac Minh monastery has been sitting in the lotus position for 300 years. According to legend, towards the end of his days, Abbot Minh immersed himself in fasting and prayer. A hundred days later, Min turned to the monks gathered before him: “The time has come for me to leave this world. When my spirit flies away from my body, wait a month. If you smell decay, bury me as it should be according to the ritual. If there is no decay, leave me.” here so that I can offer prayers to Buddha forever!” After the death of Wu Khak Minh, no rotting of the body was noticed. The monks covered the abbot's body with silver paint to protect him from insects, and left him sitting on a small platform in a niche in the chapel. After Vietnam gained independence, Abbot Minh's mummy was x-rayed. The doctors saw the outlines of a skeleton on the screen and were convinced that in front of them was really not a statue, but a human body. Research has shown that Min's body was not embalmed, the internal organs and brain remained intact. The body was preserved in tropical Vietnam, where humidity reaches one hundred percent. At the same time, Min’s remains were not moistened, but dried out. During the study at the hospital, the mummy weighed only 7 kilograms.
In addition, in one of the Buddhist schools in Japan there is a method of “lifetime mummification.” In the 9th century, the monk Kukai founded the esoteric school of Shingon. One of the ideas of the founder of the school was the idea of “Sokushin Jobutsu” - “to become a Buddha in one’s own body.” The ascetic who took this path, after prayers and meditations, began the final stage of his life, which lasted at least a thousand days. The conditions of this stage were stillness, detachment, contemplation, and a special breathing regime. The diet consisted of ever-decreasing portions of food, eliminating all nutritional components, such as starchy substances. The body switched to consuming its own tissues, and by the end of the phase, only skin and bones remained of the person. The corpse was placed in dry conditions to speed up the drying of the remaining soft tissue. The practice of intravital mummification became widespread among adherents of the teachings of “shugendo” - “mountain hermitage”. Mummies were exhibited in temples and were worshiped as incarnations of Buddhas.
However, unlike Wu Khak Minh and the Japanese Buddhists who practice intravital mummification, the body of Lama Itigelov did not shrink and practically did not undergo any changes at all. Moreover, when the llama’s skin was accidentally cut, a red jelly-like mass emerged from the wound, into which blood turned. Scientists note that not a single similar fact has yet occurred not only in the history of Buddhism, but also in the history of mankind in general. Experts are going to continue to study this phenomenon, but for now the lama’s relics are in a special temple and are an object of worship for believers. Buddhists believe that Hambo Lama has achieved the comprehension of Emptiness - the Great Reality of all phenomena. Therefore, when he passed away, he entered a state of meditation and purified his body so that after death it is preserved. By the way, anyone can see the incorruptible lama on designated days; even some travel agencies organize special tours for this.
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THE FIRST RESULTS OF DECODING ITIGELOV'S MESSAGE HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED
The first results have been achieved in the work on deciphering the message of Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov. Shireete (abbot) Baldan Lama Bazarov reported this at the international conference “The Phenomenon of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov”.
According to him, decryption began immediately after the book was found. “The work is complicated by the fact that the text is written allegorically in the old Mongolian language interspersed with Tibetan and Sanskrit,” noted Baldan Lama.
However, in two years it was possible to decipher a small part of the message - in it Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov predicts the events of the 20-30s. But at the same time, as Buddhist philosophers working on the manuscript note, the code of the message is not completely clear. The message itself is multi-layered - “one word in it can be interpreted in different ways,” emphasized Baldan Lama Bazarov.
The message from the Shireete of the Kyakhta Datsan raised many questions among the secular scientists gathered at the conference. “Now it is difficult to say anything about the meaning of the message, as interesting as it is, it is also incomprehensible. Nevertheless, it exists and work on deciphering it must continue,” noted Alexander Zavyalov, a professor at the Novosibirsk Institute of Psychotherapy.
“This is just some kind of Buryat Nostradamus. And if we manage to decipher the entire message, I think this will be the greatest knowledge for all of us,” emphasized Tatyana Strizhova, a senior researcher at the Russian State Humanitarian Institute.
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THE MYSTERY OF THE INCORPOSIBLE LAMA REVEALED
(“Arguments and Facts” dated July 4, 2007)
On September 10, 2002, the body of the 12th Pandito Hambo Lama was raised from the ground, and it was discovered that Hambo Lama literally lives after death: he has warm hands, he sweats and even opens his eyes. For the first time, leading scientists and religious figures tried to explain this phenomenon.
Now Itigelov’s body was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan as a sacred relic. The llamas take care of him, although in a rather simple way - sometimes they brush off the dust. Five years ago, Itigelov’s phenomenon shocked the whole world, but since then no serious public events have been held on this occasion. And on July 2, the first international conference “The Phenomenon of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov” was held in Buryatia. It was the first time the general public was presented with a version of the origin of this miracle.
On the opening day of the conference it was swelteringly hot. More than 130 forum participants gathered in the main Buddhist temple of Russia - the Ivolginsky datsan - to use the forces of two sciences - secular and Buddhist - to explain the phenomenon of the incorruptible body of Hambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov.
The conference was attended by patriarchs of the Buddhist Church, religious scholars, journalists, and ordinary lay people from Norway, India, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russian cities. “Hambo Lama Itigelov miraculously left his bodily assembly of five skandhas unchanged,” said Hambo Lama of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia, member of the Public Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation, Damba Ayushev, opening the forum. - For the first time, the moment of truth has come. We will decide what to do with the phenomenon. Our conference will go down in history as the first attempt to explain the phenomenon of the precious body of Hambo Lama Itigelov.”
Then the head of Russian Buddhists, Damba Ayushev, voiced why the body of Hambo Lama Dash Dorzho Itigelov did not decay. In the 20s of the last century, the 12th Hambo Lama performed a ritual of investing 5 sacred vessels for the spirits of the earth, the owners of the area. At the same time, he never touched the ground, which is why the great element protects his body. “Khambo Lama asked the believers not to lower him to the ground during the ritual (during the ritual, the students carried him in their arms). This is one of the reasons that his body has not changed,” said Damba Ayushev. And thus, Buddhists believe, Hambo Lama achieved the comprehension of Emptiness - the great reality of all phenomena. Therefore, when he passed away, he entered a state of meditation and purified his body. And now even after death it persists.
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SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO EXPLAIN AN OBVIOUS BUDDHIST PHENOMENON
The phenomenon of Khambo Lama Itigelov, for all its obviousness and openness to scientists, is not subject to modern biological science in principle.
A conference “The Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov” was held in Buryatia, dedicated to the phenomenon of the incorruptibility of the body of Lama Itigelov. 130 theologians, journalists and secular scientists from all over the world, gathered in the Ivolginsky datsan, tried to understand the reasons why, in 80 years since the death of Hambo Lama, his body has not been touched by decay.
The “Itigelov phenomenon” not only does not fit well with current scientific doctrines, but contradicts them in principle. But at the same time, on the one hand, it is open to scientists, and on the other, it finds an explanation in the fact of faith and is completely consistent with the doctrine of Buddhism, which is based on the teaching of the Four Noble Truths.
XII Pandito Khambo Lama (in the world Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov) was born in 1852. In 1911, he was elected XII Pandito Khambo Lama, the head of all Russian Buddhists. In 1917, he resigned as Hambo Lama, and in 1927 he passed away, bequeathing his body to be retrieved from the ground. The body of Khambo Lama Itigelov in the lotus position was placed in a sarcophagus and buried.
In September 2002, the sarcophagus was raised, and when it was opened, it turned out that the Lama’s body had not undergone decay. According to forensic expert, Doctor of Medical Sciences Viktor Zvyagin, the llama’s body has no pronounced post-mortem changes. The joints are mobile, the skin is elastic. Using infrared spectrophotometry, it was shown that the protein fractions of Hambo Lama have intravital characteristics.
As Vostok-Teleinform reports, at a conference held in Buryatia, an expert from India, Jampa Sandepa, expressed the opinion that Itigelov is still in long-term meditation, and gave examples from the history of Buddhism when yogis reached the same state. The rector of the Ivolginsky datsan, Dagba Lama Ochirov, noted in his report that Itigelov had reached the highest state in Buddhism, associated with the awareness of emptiness.
Perhaps Khambo Lama Itigelov reached a state of samadhi, in which a person’s breathing and heart rate sharply decrease, and their metabolism slows down. According to the teachings of yogis, during samadhi a person’s consciousness functions, but does not manifest itself in the form of feelings and logical thinking, from which a person, on the contrary, is freed. One who has achieved samadhi can arbitrarily regulate his life processes.
In addition to the phenomenon of the incorruptibility of the body of Hambo Lama Itigelov, his spiritual heritage, prophecies, as well as some philosophical aspects of Buddhism were discussed at the conference.
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HAMBO LAMA RIDED ON A HORSE AROUND THE LAKE AS ON THE EARTH
(“Arguments and Facts” dated July 24, 2007)
According to the surviving official police report, Itigelov on horseback once galloped across the surface of White Lake (now called Sulfatnoye), as if on a paved road. He could move instantly: as soon as the door was closed behind him, he immediately found himself a kilometer away from it, turning into a dot. No one, however, can replicate his method of realizing emptiness. The current head of the Buddhists of Russia, Khambo Lama Ayusheev, is said to have remarked on this matter:
If I knew how to do this, I would have left this world of suffering long ago.
In July of this year, the international conference “The Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov” was held in the Ivolginsky Datsan. According to the organizers, it should not have a clearly expressed scientific or religious character. As Khambo Lama Ayushev said:
The phenomenon is of interest to everyone. Let them come, let them say what they want, what they see, what they understand.
Although the abstracts of the conference have not yet been published, it is known that the opinions of the participants regarding the state in which Itigelov is in are divided. Buddhist scholar from India Jampa Sandepa is sure that Itigelov is still in a state of long-term meditation. In the history of Buddhism, yogis have repeatedly achieved the same state.
Indeed, hermits in Tibet, who decided to improve themselves by renouncing the world, secluded themselves in stone bags in complete darkness and emptiness. The first retreat lasted, as a rule, 3 years 3 months and 3 days. Once a day, food was delivered to the hermits. After the expiration of the term, the hermit returned to the world, but not for long. Next time, accepting seclusion for the rest of your days.
For 75 years, no one gave Itigelov food, and he left on the eve of the persecution against the lama, having previously said that they would not have time to take him. Thus, he managed to avoid repression and not see the destruction of datsans and the desecration of faith.
The life of a yogi is by no means colorless and useless; he can be useful indirectly, through his thoughts - waves of energy that, with concentration, become material. Directed and partially concentrated thought can move objects, turn into an instrument of telepathy and force a person at a distance to perform certain actions. However, this technique is not the highest in Buddhism.
The rector of the Ivolginsky datsan, Lama Dagba Ochirov, on the contrary, expressed the opinion that Itigelov had reached the highest state in Buddhism - emptiness. According to the guardian of the Precious Body of the Gelong Lama Bimba Dorzhiev, no analogues of the Itigelov phenomenon, despite the search, have yet been found.
According to other lamas, Khambo Itigelov, preserved his body, anticipating troubled times. He left himself the opportunity to return to the world at the right time to save people from suffering. Lamas believe that Itigelov has already brought enormous benefits to all living things. By helping living beings escape suffering and find a good rebirth, he thereby contributes to the purification of the common karma of the whole world.
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THE HAMBO LAMA SURPRISED THE ETHIGELS AGAIN
Hambo Lama Etigelov, photo memorial.krsk.ru
The Buddhist traditional sangha of Russia presented new materials dedicated to the phenomenon of the incorruptible body of the Buddhist saint, the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama Etigelov. The saint’s teachings and his answers to questions, which the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan receive every morning directly from the Hambo Lama Etigelov, are today classified by topic and collected in a separate collection.
This unique source was first presented by the current XXIVth Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev at the International Conference “The Phenomenon of the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama Etigelov” that began today in the Ivolginsky Datsan. It was attended by scientists, religious and public figures from different cities of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kyzyl, Ulan-Ude), Mongolia, China, the USA, and Uzbekistan.
This is the fifth scientific conference dedicated to the Etigelov phenomenon, which is held under the auspices of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia (BTSR). The organizers of the conference are traditionally the Buddhist University "Dashi Choynkhorlin" (BTSR), the Institute of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov and the Ivolginsky datsan "Khambyn Khuree".
This is already the fifth conference. “I believe that the time when we discussed the biography of the Hambo Lama Etigelov, the history of his life and the legends and traditions associated with it has passed,” Damba Ayusheev, the current Pandito Hambo Lama of the BTSR, told the Asia Russia Daily (ARD) Internet portal. - We, as true Buddhists, do not live in the past and will not look far into the future. Today we are trying to live by the instructions that Hambo Lama Etigelov gives us every day.
He talks about the teaching and teacher, about Shakyamuni Buddha and Buddhism, about bodhisattvas and dhyani buddhas, about yidamas and dakinis, about sahuyusans and celestial beings, “masters of the area” and nagas. That is, about the pantheon of Buddhism. At the same time, he tells us about moral concepts, compassion, peace, bodhichitta, as well as various aspects of life, mother tongue, homeland, climate, people's health and much more. The Hambo Lama says very interesting things about bosses! (laughs). Therefore, our task is to ensure that everything that Hambo Lama Etigel gives us in his messages is collected and is not lost to people. I hope that after this conference some of his words will enter people's lives!
"NOTES" FROM HAMBO LAMA ETIGELOV
Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev told ARD about how information is technically exchanged between Etigelov’s incorruptible body and the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan. It turns out that every morning for the past several years, the main custodian of the “erdeni munhe bee” (“precious incorruptible body”), lama of the Ivolginsky datsan Bimba Dorzhiev, after the morning service (khural) in the palace of Pandito Khambo Lama Etigelov, receives a kind of audience with the “eternal living" saint.
Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev told ARD about how information is technically exchanged between Etigelov’s incorruptible body and the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan.
This is how datsan servants describe this process. Having entered a special state similar to insight, Bimba Lama receives information “on the subtle plane” from Hambo Lama Etigelov and writes it down on a piece of paper. Moreover, the message is transmitted almost every day (if Bimba Lama is not sick) in two languages, Buryat and Tibetan. Allegedly, first Hambo Lama Etigelov himself describes in the Buryat language a situation that needs to be resolved or commented on. And then the maxim itself, a kind of conclusion or conclusion from this situation, is recited in Tibetan!
The current Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheev said that every morning (until 11.00 o’clock) he receives from the chief guardian Lama Bimba Dorzhiev a piece of paper with the information contained on it. For example, today, June 27, 2015, on the opening day of the International Conference, he received the following information: “Two students are holding their teacher’s hands on both sides. He sat in meditation for 15 years and today he came out of it (in Buryat language - C .B.). Answer of Khambo Lama Etigelov: In his body, speech and consciousness he received siddhi, supernatural abilities (in Tibetan - S.B.)."
Every day I receive such a gift from Bimba Lama (note - S.B.) and throughout the day I walk and think. In the evening I go to my native Twitter (laughs) and post it all in Russian! - Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheev described his day to ARD.
Materials from the personal page of Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheev on the social network Twitter with daily messages from the “eternally living” Lama Etigelov have already accumulated to fill a quite impressive brochure. The Buddhist traditional sangha managed to publish this book with a breakdown of messages by topic just before the beginning of the international scientific conference on the Etigelov phenomenon. And all participants in the conference taking place on June 27-28, 2015 today became acquainted with the most striking “letters” of the saint, set out in the leading report of the scientific forum, which was presented by the head of the BTSR himself.
THE BUDDHA OF THE GELS?
The report “The Path of Compassion is the Path of Freedom” by Doctor of Economics Alexander Khachaturov, Director of the Institute of Economics and Management of the Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technology University (Moscow), said that the Etigelov phenomenon is “proof of the unity of the spiritual and physical worlds.” Because Hambo Lama Etigelov “preserved for us his precious inexhaustible body with the help of spiritual practices.”
Thirteen years have passed since the return of Hambo Lama Etigelov. And I think it’s already clear to all of us: Buddha has returned! - Dr. Alexander Khachaturov said from the conference rostrum, clearly identifying himself as a practicing Buddhist. - Buddha Shakyamuni gave us a teaching, and Buddha Etigelov once again confirmed the truth and relevance of this teaching. Etigelov did not let go of his body, as Buddha Shakyamuni did. His precious inexhaustible body is an indication that we should look for the answer in the physical world. The purpose of these searches is to find the connection between the physical and spiritual worlds and their unity.
According to Alexander Khachaturov, within the framework of today’s natural science concepts it is impossible to explain Etigelov’s phenomenon, since his body “is in some kind of energy, material, information or other exchange with the outside world not established by science, that is, it remains alive.” The scientist hypothesized that information can be converted into energy and vice versa, and that consciousness is not always associated with the brain.
Spiritual practices have always been human attempts to influence the material world through informational influence, the scientist believes. - Information can determine and set the properties of matter at the stage of structurogenesis, that is, influence its structure. The experience of water crystallization under the influence of sound signals with different information content, with varying degrees of harmony or disharmony, symmetry or lack of symmetry, confirms this idea. This means that informational influence can change the properties of a substance at the degree of its formation. And this approach can probably be used!
On the first day of the conference, after all the welcoming words and the plenary session, its participants were divided into two scientific sections, where the discussion of the phenomenon of the incorruptible body of Dashi-Dorzho Etigelov will continue tomorrow.
A large number of reports will be presented by conference guests from Mongolia. Moreover, both representatives of Mongolian Buddhists and scientists will speak. Among the speakers are also employees of the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetology SB RAS, Buryat State University, East Siberian Academy of Culture, Russian State Humanitarian University, Buddhist University "Dashi Choynkhorlin", specialists in the field of neuropathology, medicine, programming, members of the Russian and American Geographical Societies.
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LAMA ITIGELOV
(video)
On September 11, 2002, the opening of the sarcophagus with the ashes of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov (1852-1927) took place in the Ivolginsky datsan.
The body was removed from the bumkhan - the lama's burial place in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area in the presence of the leadership and clergy of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia. Everyone was surprised that 75 years after the burial, the body of the Great Lama was preserved in excellent condition - in the same lotus position that Itigelov took when he passed away while meditating.
Even among very advanced Buddhist practitioners, achieving an incorruptible body is a rare case, according to representatives of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia. Only great Teachers, when passing away, can enter a state of meditation-samadhi and purify their body so that it is preserved after death. This happens because the process of death - the extinction of the vital functions of the body - is under conscious control. But not every body can remain incorruptible, says the oldest Buryat Lama, Gelek-Balbar. One can only assume that Hambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was a practitioner of the highest level who achieved direct comprehension of the Emptiness - the Great Reality of all phenomena.
A selection of materials from the Internet
(Your versions and additional information on the topic are welcome)
In 2002, a phenomenal phenomenon associated with the name of Khambo Lama Itigelov aroused extraordinary interest in the world community. On September 10 of that year, the incorrupt body of XII Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzhi Itigelov, the head of the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia, who was buried on June 15, 1927, was raised to the surface of the earth. A commission of forensic experts made an examination and drew up a conclusion stating that no embalming or preservation of the body was carried out. There are many signs that indicate that the cells of the body are alive, but are in a special state of suspended animation ( state of samadhi!?). How Hambo Lama's body was preserved in this condition for 75 years in a box buried in the ground remains a mystery. And also how he managed to do this during his lifetime. This phenomenon was widely discussed in the press, a film was created, a lot of information was collected about Itigelov’s life and work, round tables and conferences were held, but there is no clear understanding of this phenomenon yet. Modern science is unable to explain the nature of this phenomenon. Living lamas have expressed the opinion that through spiritual practice and meditation he was able to preserve his body to demonstrate the power of the Buddha's teachings.
This is another example of how much there is unknown and inaccessible to modern science and how deep and mysterious life, death and consciousness really are. And the modern understanding of the world order requires rethinking. But from the standpoint of spiritual knowledge and practice, this phenomenon can be explained. This is the case when consciousness is stronger than matter and is capable of creating “miracles” even in this material world, contrary to the physical laws known to us.
The material about the incorruptible Lama is even more advantageous than about Edgar Cayce, since here you can no longer write off “it didn’t happen” or “quackery.” I wonder what my skeptic opponents on the forum of this LJ will now say against this material? Do I really “don’t believe it” again? :) After all, a unique phenomenon is evident!
P.S. Important points in the text are highlighted in bold text.
Georgy Kozulko
Belovezhskaya Pushcha
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Imperishable Khambo Lama Itigelov
Dashi Dorzho Itigelov - Pandita Khambo Lama XII (that is, the head of the Buddhists of Buryatia, Pandito Khambo Lama is the title of the head of the Buddhists, which roughly translates as “the most learned lama”, “pandit” in Sanskrit “scholar”). The name of this extraordinary man, a major Buddhist philosopher and clergyman, became known to the general public about ten years ago.
Note: In historical and modern sources and archival documents, there are different spellings of the surname of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama: Etigeley, Etigelov, Itegilov, etc. The traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia has adopted the spelling of the surname in accordance with his preserved handwritten signature in Russian.
Childhood and youth
Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was born in 1852 in the area of Ulzy Dobo (now the territory of the Orongoi rural administration of the Ivolginsky district of the Republic of Buryatia).
Having lost his parents early, he ended up in the Oshor Bulak area, where he grazed sheep for about five years. Since childhood, Itigelov was distinguished by his purposeful and independent character. At the age of 15, he secretly reached the Aninsky datsan (Buddhist monastery) (Khorinsky district of Buryatia) and studied there for 23 years: he studied Sanskrit, the Tibetan language, logic, and Buddhist texts. In order not to interrupt their education, local residents for more than a decade and a half, at the request of Khoito-lamahai, paid a fee for Itigelov to the state treasury for his release from military service.
Spiritual path
Comprehending the teachings of the Buddha, Itigelov successfully defended the title of gebshi, then gabzhi (academic degrees of philosophical lamas) and became famous for his scholarship. In subsequent years, he improved his knowledge in the Tsugolsky and Tamchinsky datsans, gaining fundamental knowledge of Tibetan medicine. In 1898, he returned to his homeland, to the Yangazhinsky datsan, where he was enrolled as a full-time lama and began teaching Buddhist philosophy, while simultaneously performing the duties of Geskha Lama Sogshon-dugan.
In 1904, Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was appointed shiretui (abbot) of the Yangazhinsky datsan. While in this position, he initiated the construction of new Choira-dugan, Devazhin-dugan. Dugans were erected for the purpose of performing virtues for the many thousands of soldiers who died during the war. Itigelov donated his entire fortune for the construction - about 15 thousand rubles. Having started construction and set an example, he collected a significant amount in the form of donations from the population. He also made great efforts for educational and healing activities among believers and laity.
In the spring of 1911, at the Residence of Khambo Lama (Tamchinsky datsan), from among ten applicants, he was elected XII Pandita Khambo Lama of the Buddhist clergy of Eastern Siberia.
After the outbreak of the First World War, he was involved in collecting funds to help the front. In 1915, he was awarded the highest state award of Mongolia - the Order of the Precious Rod, and in 1916, for special works and merits in providing assistance to persons called up for war, as well as the families of the wounded and fallen, he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne, II degree.
By that time, Transbaikalia had turned into one of the largest Buddhist centers in the world - with dozens of temples, printing houses, rich libraries that housed both the latest and ancient rare books, and centers of Tibetan medicine.
Until 1917, Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was the head of Buddhists in Russia. He then resigned, according to the official version, due to illness. But some modern researchers of his life and work believe that the reason was different: he foresaw the tragic fate of Russian Buddhism in the twentieth century under I. Stalin and its further revival, so he spent the last ten years of his life preparing for this future. This is what he spoke about in his will to his students.
XII Pandita Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was a practitioner of the highest level. Based on Bogdo Zonkhava’s essay “Dembarel Dodba”, he made a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of Emptiness and achieved direct comprehension of Emptiness - the Great Reality of all phenomena. He also created a fundamental work on Tibetan pharmacology, Zhor. From the age of 38 until the end of his life, at the request of the lamas, he wrote more than fifty books on Buddhism.
Voluntary death
On June 15, 1927, XII Pandita Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov sat in the lotus position and gathered his students. He gave them his final instructions: “You will come and see my body in 30 years.” Then he asked them to read “Nuga Namshi” for him - a special prayer of good wishes for the deceased. The disciples did not dare to say it in the presence of the living Teacher. Then Hambo Lama began to read this prayer himself; gradually the students picked it up. So, being in a state of meditation, XII Pandita Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov went into nirvana , seemingly forever.
He was buried in a cedar cube in the same position (lotus position) in which he was at the time of his departure.
Soon after Itigelov left, mass looting and destruction of datsans and places of worship began, and a wave of arrests of Buddhists began. The clergy and believers hid the sacred relics, but most of them were mercilessly destroyed by the Bolsheviks. In the Aninsky datsan, the central temple was blown up; Later, a slaughterhouse was set up in its ruins.
Finding an incorruptible body
According to the will, in 1955, a group of lamas led by the 17th Pandit Khambo Lama Lubsan-Nima Darmaev, secretly from the authorities, raised a sarcophagus in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area with the body of the 12th Pandit Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov. Having made sure that his condition had not changed, they performed the necessary rituals, changed his clothes and placed him back in the bumkhan (box). In 1973, XIX Pandita Khambo Lama Zhambal-Dorzho Gomboev and the lamas repeated the procedure and made sure the body was safe.
By the end of the last century, all of Itigelov’s students died. But he himself began to appear in a dream to the current head of the Buddhist Sangha. On September 7, 2002, eighty-eight-year-old Amgalan Dabaevich Dabaev, a resident of the village of Gilbira, indicated to Hambo Lama D. Ayusheev the location of Itigelov in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area. September 10, 2002 XXIV Pandita Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev with a group of lamas in the presence of government officials and forensic experts They raised the sarcophagus with Itigelov. Lama Itigelov was still sitting in the same “lotus position” that he had taken 75 years ago, before entering his final meditation. Having completed the necessary ritual actions, his body was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan and placed in a glass sarcophagus, in which neither temperature nor humidity was regulated. The body remains in a sitting position without any devices or supports.
Practically, his main caretaker Bimbo Lama is constantly near the Teacher. After a certain time, according to the season, he changes his clothes, and by this period the joints become more mobile. Bimbo Lama noted that when changing clothes, “a fragrance emanates from the Lama’s body.”
Dasha Dorzho Itigelov, by the way, is considered a rebirth of the First Pandito Khambo Lama Zayaev. He also died at the age of 75 and, leaving, told his disciples: “I will return in 75 years.” And three quarters of a century later, Itigelov was born in 1852. He also said that he would return in 75 years, and in 2002 his sarcophagus was raised.
Scientific study of the llama body
Itigelov's body turned out to be incorrupt, it is now located in the Ivolginsky datsan.
From a natural science point of view, the phenomenon cannot be explained. A biological object like Itigelov’s body, with which no one did anything - mummified, embalmed - cannot exist. But it exists.
The Buddhist authorities of Buryatia allowed secular scientists to study the phenomenon of the incorruptible body of Pandit Khambo Lama XII. The examination of the Academy of Sciences has testified several times that The protein structure of Itigelov’s body corresponds to the protein structure of a living person. It sweats, gains weight, has soft, elastic skin, mobility of fingers and elbow joints is preserved, eyeballs are present, internal organs are intact, etc. It looks like the body of a man who died no more than twelve hours ago. During the last conference “The Phenomenon of Hambo Lama Itigelov” at the Buddhist University in 2009, the three highest Buddhist hierarchs of Russia, Mongolia and Northern India measured Itigelov’s body temperature. It reached 34 degrees, and normally ranges from 18 to 23 degrees. This is not a mummy or a relic. This is an extraordinary event that science cannot yet explain.
According to Viktor Zvyagin, head. dept. identification of the Russian Center for Forensic Medicine, hair samples, skin particles, and sections of two nails were taken. Infrared spectrophotometry showed that protein fractions have intravital characteristics - similar samples were taken from living people for comparison. There was no cadaverous smell either during the opening of the sarcophagus or now. An analysis of Itigelov’s skin carried out in 2004 showed that the concentration of bromine in the llama’s body was 40 times higher than the norm.
During exhumation, it was discovered that Itigelov’s sarcophagus was filled with salt, which “in some places harmed his skin - dried it out” (according to Zvyagin, there was no salt in the sarcophagus until 1973). This, in particular, may explain the phenomenon of fluctuations in body weight (within 100 g) on days of mass visits. Dried fabrics or salt can absorb water vapor, increasing body weight these days. The excess moisture then evaporates from the surface of the body, resembling sweat. In the first few years after the opening of the sarcophagus, the body gained weight up to 2 kg annually. Over 6 years, the weight increased by 5-10 kg and amounted to 41 kg.
Since January 2005, all biomedical research on Itigelov’s body was closed by decree of the head of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia.
During major Buddhist celebrations, seven times a year, religious pilgrims have the opportunity to see the body of Hambo Lama Itigelov. During ceremonial services, his face becomes covered with drops of sweat, which are wiped off by the guardians. This was confirmed by Yanzhima Vasilyeva, director of the Itigelov Institute: “Changes happen constantly. The Lama’s complexion changes, and in 2005, the head of the Buddhists of Mongolia, Khambo Lama Choyzhamts, noted that Khambo Lama Itigelov’s hair had grown and turned black.”
At the 1st international conference “Global Phenomenon of the XII Khambo Lama Itigelov and the problem of immortality” in 2006, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences of the University “Dubna” Boris Bolshakov reported on the results of the latest scientific research carried out using the methods of infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. Scientists again testified that the protein structure of Itigelov’s body corresponded to the protein structure of a living person. Thus, it was once again officially confirmed that 80 years after Itigelov’s death, all the vital functions of the cells of his body remained active, and the cell nuclei remained alive and undamaged.
B. Bolshakov also noted that although in the summer the heat in Buryatia reaches 40 degrees and there are no refrigeration units in this “primitive sarcophagus”, Itigelov’s body does not rot or decompose. “All visitors testify that they experience a powerful heat flow emanating from Itigelov’s body. Moreover, his face becomes covered with sweat, that is, there is a loss of energy. But the weight remains,” the scientist stated.
According to a report by RAS Academician Sergei Kursakin, scientists recorded the activity of Itigelov’s hypothalamus, as well as the frequencies of electromagnetic oscillations emanating from the Lama’s body. Kursakin added that “there is also blood preserved in the body of Hambo Lama! True, it turned from liquid to jelly-like.”
Professor B. Bolshakov admitted that he does not know “a single similar fact about a person’s life after his physical death, officially registered by a forensic medical examination in a state document. Not only in the history of Buddhism, but also in the history of mankind in general.”
In 2009, at the II international conference “The Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov” I.V. Tikhonov from St. Petersburg in his report “Philosophical aspect of the phenomenon of Khambo Lama Itigelov” noted: “From the point of view of the generally accepted idea of the surrounding world, such a biological object as the incorruptible body of Khambo Lama Itigelov cannot exist. Nevertheless, this object exists and is constantly present in our world. This fact means only one thing: our ideas about the world are imperfect and require adjustment«.
Some scientists call this state of the human body suspended animation. However, regardless of the name, modern science is powerless to explain this phenomenon. “The universal importance of the phenomenon of Khambo Lama Itigelov,” said Tikhonov, “consists precisely... in the destruction of existing ideas about the world and in the awareness of the need to build a new picture of the surrounding world, taking into account the fact of the existence of the incorruptible body of Khambo Lama Itigelov. Looking back into the past, it should be noted that changes in ideas about the world around us in people's minds occurred constantly in connection with the accumulation of new previously unknown information about the world (great geographical discoveries, man's entry into outer space, etc.). Otherwise, we would still believe that the Earth is flat and rests on three pillars.”
Alexander Khachaturov, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, at the III International Conference “The Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov” in June 2011 said: “For the first time we are seeing such a serious experiment that Itigelov set up: he lived 75 years among people, 75 underground and has already returned to our world for 9 years and continues to live. Moreover, everyone who sees and observes his body says that the body not only does not change for the worse, it becomes better, and this is the body of a living person.” And Geshe Lharamba Lobsang Haidup, a teacher at the Buddhist University “Goman Datsana” (India), in his welcoming speech at the opening of the conference, suggested that Hambo Lama Itigelov could rise (come to life) when the Buddha of the Future Maitreya comes and illuminates him with his ray.
The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama XIV, said in this regard in an interview with the weekly “Arguments and Facts” (No. 14, 2003): “... many Buddhist monks experience death by dying during meditation, thus freeing themselves from earthly existence. They can meditate for decades and their bodies do not decompose. An example of this is a meditating lama in Buryatia, whose body has been incorruptible for 75 years..."
According to Lama Ayusheev, the return of Khambo Lama Itigelov “strengthened believers in their faith, relieved doubters from doubts, and made atheists think...”. The phenomenon of finding the Teacher’s body caused enormous activity among Russian, and not only Russian, Buddhists. He preserved his incorrupt body for the edification of posterity and proved that faith does not depend on time and power.
In memory of Dashi Dorzho Itigelov
The lama’s great-niece, Yanzhima Vasilyeva, created the information center “Together with Itigelov” in 2002, and in 2004 -.
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- Message from Hambo Lama
A lot has been said and written about the Itigelov phenomenon lately. In fact, we can say that this is a fact of a person’s life officially registered by a forensic medical examination, recorded in a state document after his physical death.
Itigelov is a native of Buryatia, a famous religious figure named Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov (1852-1927), who was the head of Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1917. To understand and assess Itigelov’s current state, it is extremely important that he passed away while performing certain ritual actions: having gathered his close disciples, he sat in the lotus position and asked them to perform the Buddhist prayer “Good wishes for the departing.”
The disciples were surprised that they had to read this prayer to a living person. Then Itigelov read the prayer himself. And before that, he left a will to his students: saying that he was leaving for a thousand years, he asked to raise him after 75 years to make sure that he was alive. In secular terms, it is quite possible that he wanted to demonstrate on himself a model, some example of how one can live after death. And, apparently, he believed that a thousand years is enough time for people to figure it out, to be able to understand the mechanisms and ways to achieve this goal.
In September 2002, the opening of the sarcophagus in which Itigelov was located took place in the presence of the leadership of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia and medical experts. Everyone was surprised by the excellent preservation of the body despite time and the irreversibility of physical decay. Itigelov was still sitting in the same lotus position that he had taken while meditating when he passed away. He was not only recognizable in appearance, but he had all the signs of a living body: soft skin without any shades of decay, his nose, ears, closed eyes, fingers, and so on were preserved in place. I do not know of a single similar fact officially registered by the modern state, not only in the history of Buddhism, but also in the history of mankind in general.
It is also interesting that Itigelov was born exactly 75 years after the death of his teacher. The first head of the Buddhist church, Pandito Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia, leaving this life, said to his disciples: I will return to you. And in 1852, exactly 75 years later, Khambo Lama Itigelov was born. He also lives for 75 years and leaves with the words: “I will return to you in 75 years.” After opening the sarcophagus, Hambo Lama was transported to the Ivolginsky datsan (a datsan is a complex of Buddhist buildings that unites individual dagans - temples), changed clothes and placed on the second floor in the same lotus position. Days, months and years passed, but his body remained incorrupt. Pathologists who came to Datsan were amazed - the preservation of the body contradicted all the official laws of nature.
After much deliberation, the current head of Russian Buddhists decided to give scientists the opportunity to examine Itigelov’s body. The examination was carried out by the head of the personal identification department of the Russian Bureau of Forensic Medicine, Professor Viktor Zvyagin. He collected hair that had fallen from the llama's head, exfoliated skin, and trimmed a few milligrams of a toenail for testing. The results obtained stunned the expert: spectral analysis did not reveal anything in the organic tissues of the body that would distinguish them from the tissues of a living person. In addition to the official forensic medical examination led by Professor Zvyagin, many other experts from different countries came to Datsan, each time various analyzes were carried out, but everyone came to the conclusion that Itigelov’s body corresponded to all the parameters of the body of a living person, including eyes. But scientists have not yet been able to verify that his brain is working. There are different points of view on this matter. However, almost all experts agree that the state Itigelov is in does not belong to any of the three commonly called states after physical death. It should be noted here that physical death is determined by the body’s inability to perform external work, that is, the body is not able to spend and receive external energy flows.
It is generally accepted that there are three states of the body after physical death. The first is mummification, when the body is completely dehydrated. The second is the state of peat tanning, when the human body, falling into a swamp, turns red and is deprived of liquid. The third state is fat-wax. Scientists call Itigelov’s phenomenon the “fourth state of death.” Actually, one of the questions that I had to answer was precisely to determine Itigelov’s condition. But for this it was necessary to answer two additional questions. The fact is that Itigelov lay for 75 years at a depth of 2.5 m in a wooden sarcophagus (cedar box), surrounded by salt solution. In theory, if Itigelov was in the state of a person who died an ordinary physical death, then the salt would have corroded all the contents. But when Itigelov was raised, the sarcophagus and body, as I already said, were perfectly preserved. Moreover, the chairman of the commission, Zvyagin, was confident that after lifting the body, it would turn to dust in three to four hours. After all, sudden changes in external conditions usually lead to just such consequences. But this did not happen with Itigelov. And here’s the second question: how did a person, after lying in a saline solution for 75 years, remain incorruptible? And the third question arose in connection with the current state of Itigelov.
Now Itigelov has been in the Ivolginsky datsan for four years. The lotus position, in which it was kept for 75 years in a cedar box, after being removed from it, is preserved without the use of any supporting or fixing devices. Although in summer the heat in Buryatia reaches 40 degrees and there are no refrigeration units in this primitive “sarcophagus”, Itigelov’s body does not rot or decompose. There is no access to light or artificial lighting in the room - only dim light penetrates from the first floor. At the same time, everyone who comes here says that they experience a powerful heat flow emanating from Itigelov’s body. Moreover, his face becomes covered with sweat, that is, there is a loss of energy. But the weight is retained! Four years! How, how is the energy balance maintained when there is no visible access to light, the flow of solar energy, when there is no physical impact, there is nothing that could be considered energy supply?
So, I had three questions:
1. How to qualify the state in which Itigelov is currently?
2. How to explain the fact that, after lying underground in a saline solution for 75 years, it remained incorrupt?
3. How is the body’s energy balance now ensured, what does it “nourish” in the absence of access to light?
The short answer is this: If you choose from three possible states of an organism - alive (real space), dead (reciprocal space) and a transitional state, then there is reason to assume that it is a living organism. Secondly, why didn’t the salt corrode Itigelov’s body and the sarcophagus in which he was located? Because Itigelov put himself in a state of standing wave. As a result, the destructive processes actively occurring from the external aggressive environment were compensated by reverse counter processes that slowed down the corrosive effect, and at the junction of the direct and counter processes, that is, when two waves running in opposite directions collided (overlaid) a state of a standing wave was formed . In this position, both counter-moving waves neutralized each other and other zones in which the waves were combined, and extinguished the maximum amplitude of the destructive effect. And third. Itigelov really sweats, but at the same time maintains weight, without any external energy supply.
However, the current lama told me that twice a day they recite a prayer similar to the prayer of love. And I had no choice but to explain the preservation of the energy balance by the fact that Itigelov receives recharge through the flow of frequencies. Any spoken word is a vibration, any prayer is a flow of frequencies. As you know, frequency is the reciprocal of time; it is determined by the number of revolutions per second. The energy flow (power) is equal to the square of the frequency multiplied by Planck's constant. In order to receive a flow of energy, you need to be exposed to a certain flow of frequencies. And in order for the power generated in this case to be synchronized with the power of the body, it is necessary to supply not some abstract stream of frequencies, but the one that is formed from the word “love”. After all, when Itigelov left, when he was immersed in the pit, they read a certain prayer, that is, he was already in harmony with a certain frequency. And in order to remain in harmony with this frequency further, this frequency must be reproduced. And now it is reproduced through prayer, where the sound is stable and dominant, which is in resonant synchronization with the sound vibrations emanating from the word “love”. The frequency flow generated by the word “love” is comparable to the frequency of rotation of the Earth around its own axis.
Here it is necessary to turn to the Bartini-Kuznetsov spatio-temporal system, which underlies breakthrough technologies for sustainable development. Graphically, the system of space-time quantities is a table where integer powers of length (L) - from minus to plus infinity - form vertical columns, and time (T) - horizontal columns. When moving from element to element from top to bottom, depending on the direction (to the right or left), the dimensions of the system elements change to the dimension of multidimensional extension or multidimensional duration. If you build such a table, then in each cell there will be L (length) to some extent and T (time) to some extent. But at the same time, there is a cell where L and T are at the zero degree. L - to the zero degree and T - to the zero degree is equal to one. And this cell is precisely called the Great Emptiness. The Void - because it does not depend on space and time, and the Great - because, in spite of everything, it is alive. This system itself consists of four pairs of coordinate axes, which form four complementary pairs - when the product of a certain quantity and its reciprocal value is equal to one. In order for an organism to be in the Great Emptiness, it is necessary that all subspaces (real, reverse and transitional) harmonize with each other. So Itigelov put himself in such a state.
And I must say that he has been directly involved in this for the last ten years. In 1917, he refused all posts and began to focus exclusively on his spiritual development. Moreover, the director of the institute, Itigelova, told me that in recent years he has been working with children. But it is known that in a child who has just given birth, who has gone through 9 months of development in the womb, the dominant frequency of the brain is 3-4 Hz. The fact is that the human brain at different ages and in different states of activity operates at different frequencies. The basic states of human consciousness are characterized by low-frequency rhythms of the brain - hertz and fractions of hertz. In order to fill the body with love and harmony and achieve a standing wave state, the brain frequency must be equal to one hertz. This frequency is equal to the frequency of the brain of a baby who is in the mother’s womb at the age of 2-3 months from the moment of conception (by the way, according to Buryat laws, a person’s age is calculated not from the moment of birth, but precisely from the moment of conception). Moreover, recent studies have shown that when a person reads or hears a prayer, the vibration frequency of his brain cells becomes the same as that of a baby. But where Itigelov is now, they pray twice a day.
It was interesting to conduct research using a pendulum, which shows the influence of the LT system on us, on our consciousness and vice versa. This seemingly primitive instrument demonstrates the operation of time-frequency flows, which is verified by the frequency of rotation of the pendulum. It can rotate to the right - clockwise, to the left - counterclockwise - and oscillate, that is, show the transition of space. I took the pendulum to Itigelov. The current lama gave me permission to use it. I went with the pendulum from the bottom up. I examined my legs and arms - the pendulum was spinning like a normal person, with normal acceleration, with normal amplitude. So I got to the head. But as soon as I placed the pendulum above my head, it began to rotate with enormous amplitude. This reaction can only be observed in a working brain.
Moreover, Associate Professor of our department M.A. Kulakova told me that she observed something similar during the examination of children. All this confirms that Itigelov is currently a living organism. Leaving into another world in a state of very low frequency, the lama plunged not into death, but into another state of life. I'm guessing that his brain is now displaying a frequency of about one hertz. This is really a baby 2-3 months from conception, as in the womb.
edited news Core - 27-04-2011, 09:44
And Itigelov Dashi Dorzho is the most learned Lama of the XII. For Buddhists, this title sounds like Pandito Hambo Lama. Itigelov headed the Buddhist religion of Buryatia from 1911 to 1917. In the last years of his life, after performing a ceremony in 1927, he went into nirvana and his body remains incorruptible to this day, i.e. for about 90 years now. This fact remains a mystery to scientists.
Who is Itigelov
As mentioned above, Itigelov has been the twelfth head of the Buddhist religion of Buryatia since 1911. Not much is known about the lama's childhood. It is known that he was born in 1852 in the area of Ulzy-Dobo. His father Mantagaray Etigelov had four children: 3 sons and 1 daughter. There is no information about the mother, because the pedigree was conducted only on the paternal side. Dashi Dorzho grew up an orphan because his parents died at an early age, and he had to start working very early. He had to graze cattle for five years. From childhood he claimed that he would become a lama, but at that time they only laughed at him. At the age of 15, the “future lama” reached the Aninsky datsan (Buddhist monastery), where he studied Buddhism for about 23 years. After graduating from the Aninsky datsan, Etigelov began studying medicine in 1895, and already in 1898 his long-time prediction came true - he was enrolled as a staff lama of the Yangazhinsky datsan. On March 19, 1911, Dashi Dorzho took the post of Pandito Khambo-Lama of the Lamian eastern clergy of Siberia, replacing his predecessor Yaroltuev.
Religious activities of a Buddhist lama
Itigelov’s religious activity is also a rather interesting moment in the life of a clergyman. He, being in the rank of shireete, at the beginning of the Russian-Japanese War, conducts rituals to protect the inhabitants of those lands leaving for the front. During the period of hostilities themselves, in order to perform virtue for the soldiers who died and suffered during the war, Shireete builds Choira-dugan and Devazhin-dugan. At the same time, Etigelov donates his entire fortune (about 15 thousand rubles) to the construction of churches. Dashi Dorzho, being in the rank of lama, treated royal persons and was present at their holidays. It is known that Itigelov was revered by Nicholas II and he was invited to a holiday dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Also in 1913, the lama held a solemn service for the health of the emperor and the entire royal house in St. Petersburg. Upon returning from St. Petersburg, the First World War began. At Itigelov’s request, the “All-Buryat Society” was created. The main task of the society was to help the state provide material support during the war. They collected funds for which they bought food, clothing, shoes, personal hygiene products and sent them to hospitals and to the front. For these deeds, the Buddhist lama was awarded the highest award of Mongolia - the Order of the Precious Rod, and a year later - the Order of St. Anna, II degree, from the Russian side.
Departure from life and his further fate
According to Itigelov, he knew about at least three of his reincarnations. For believers, he was the rebirth of the first Hambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia, who was born in 1702. In confirmation of this, he precisely pointed to the place where Zayaev’s vajra and bell were buried. After the discovery of ancient relics, a datsan was erected on this site. In 1917, due to deteriorating health, he resigned from the post of Pandito Khambo Lama and returned to the Yangazhinsky datsan. There he was engaged in educational and healing activities, but some mystics suggest that he foresaw his fate under I.V. Stalin.
Vitoge, in June 1927, Dashi Dorzho gave the last instruction to his students and asked them to help carry out a ritual called “Good wishes for the departing.” At its core, it is a prayer of the deceased, which he asked his students to help read. At first no one supported Itigelov’s idea and he began to read the prayer himself, after which the students took up his words. At the end of the ritual, Itigelov assumed the “Lotus” pose and went into nirvana. After this event, he was placed in the same position in a sarcophagus (bumkhan) in a cedar cube and buried in a place called Khukhe Zurkhen. In 1955, Pandito Khambo-Lama Lubsan-Nima Darmaev, secretly from the government, together with his disciples, raised Itigelov’s body and, it indeed turned out to be incorruptible, they performed the necessary rituals. After replacing his clothes, they placed him back in the sarcophagus. In 1973, Pandito Khambo-Lama Zhambal Dorzho Gomboev once again raised his body and made sure that his body was in good condition. By the end of the 20th century, all of Etigelov’s students died, and he began to come in dreams to the current head of the Buddhist sangha. In 2002, his body in a sarcophagus was found and dug up from a depth of 1.5 meters after almost 90 years.
Science and conclusions
The fact that Etigelov’s body remains incorrupt remains a mystery to scientists to this day. After his sarcophagus was opened in 2002, some of his skin was damaged. This is explained by the fact that copious amounts of salt were found in the sarcophagus. Scientists admit that the llama's body remains viable and he can wake up from suspended animation at any moment. The very fact that scientists recognized the viability of Etigelov’s body suggests an imperfect representation of our world. This fact makes scientists think about this phenomenon, and makes believers believe even more.
