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Ivolginsky datsan is a large Buddhist monastic complex, the center of Buddhism in the Russian Federation, the residence of Pandito Khambo Lama. It is located in the village of Verkhnyaya Ivolga, within the Ivolginsky district of Buryatia, about 36 km west of Ulan-Ude.
Ivolginsky datsan - the most famous Buddhist monastery Buryatia. It attracts numerous pilgrims and tourists who come here not only from all over Russia, but also from other countries.
Rituals are held here every day, and on religious holidays - the corresponding services. Ivolginsky datsan is the place of residence of quite unusual shrine- the imperishable body of Khambo Lama Itigelov.
Buddhism spread throughout Buryatia in the 17th century. It was brought to these parts by Mongolian lamas. Before the revolution of 1917, there were more than 35 datsans in Russia, of which 32 were in the then Transbaikal region, which occupied most modern Buryatia and Trans-Baikal Territory. However, difficult times followed.
By the 1930s, Buddhism in our country was almost completely eradicated. Almost all datsans were destroyed, and the monks were sent to prison, exile and hard labor. Hundreds of lamas were shot. The situation began to change for the better only by the mid-1940s.
In the spring of 1945, the Council of People's Commissars of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic issued a resolution. This decree allowed the foundation of a new datsan.
Local Buddhists began to collect money and religious objects. With the funds that we managed to raise, in a place known as Oshor-Bulag, literally in the middle of an open field, the first temple was built.
Palace of Khambo Lama Itigelov (Ivolginsky Datsan) (Photo: Dmitry Shipulya)
In December 1945, an open service was held here for the first time. In 1951, land was allocated for the construction of the monastery, then houses for the lamas and some outbuildings were built here.
In the 1970s, almost all datsan temples existing today were erected. In 1991, a Buddhist university was opened within the monastery. Today, more than a hundred monks train there.
In 2002, the imperishable body of Pandito Khambo Lama XII Itigelov was placed in the Ivolginsky datsan. To store this Buddhist relic was erected new temple, where in 2008 they placed the body of the Teacher.
Monastery complex
The datsan includes 10 temples. There are also a number of other buildings and structures - the residence of the current Khambo Lama Ayusheev, libraries, educational buildings, a greenhouse, a hotel, various utility and residential buildings, and an information center.
The sacred relic of the Ivolginsky datsan: the story of Lama Itigelov
Khambo Lama Itigelov was the spiritual leader of the Buddhists of Buryatia. According to available data, he was born in 1852 within the current Ivolginsky district.
Itigelov's parents died when he was still a child. At the age of fifteen, he came to the Aninsky datsan, and then studied Buddhism there for more than 20 years.
In the future, Itigelov showed himself as a religious figure. In 1904 he became the rector of one of the datsans of Buryatia, and in 1911 he was elected the XII Pandito Khambo Lama.
It is generally accepted that in June 1927 Itigelov went into nirvana, after instructing the monks to look at his body seventy-five years later. He was buried in a cedar sarcophagus seated in the lotus position, as he remained in this position at the time of his departure.
Itigelov's body was secretly examined twice by lamas, in the 1950s and 1970s. In the course of inspection, the lamas came to the conclusion that it had not changed.
In September 2002, Khambo Lama Ayusheev, together with a number of other persons, pulled out a cube with Itigelov's body and escorted him to the Ivolginsky datsan.
In 2008, the body of the Teacher was transferred to a temple built for this purpose. It is revered as a shrine of Buddhism.
The new temple was built according to the drawings of Devazhin-dugan of the Yangazhinsky datsan. Devazhin-dugan in 1906 was designed and built by Itigelov himself, but this temple was destroyed in the 1930s during the persecution of Buddhists.
The secret of the preservation of the body of the Khambo Lama is a mystery to scientists. After lifting the body, some elements of biological tissues were taken, but already in 2005, any further analyzes were prohibited by Ayusheev. Laboratory data showed that the tissues were not dead.
The monks caring for the body claim that his temperature changes and even perspiration appears on his forehead. You can see the Imperishable Teacher and bow to him eight times a year, during important religious holidays.
How to get to the datsan?
Ivolginsky datsan is in good transport accessibility. By highway A-340 Ulan-Ude - Kyakhta, you need to get to the regional center, the village of Ivolginsk. In the village, you need to turn right off the main road and drive about 8 km more to the village of Verkhnyaya Ivolga, on the northern outskirts of which the monastery is located.
The distance from the datsan to the center of Ulan-Ude is 36 kilometers.
From Ulan-Ude you can take bus number 130 to Ivolginsk, and from there minibuses go to the monastery complex. During important services, buses from the Buryat capital go directly to the datsan.
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 the very advanced Buddhist practitioners the achievement of an imperishable body is the rarest case, representatives of the traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia believe. Only great Teachers, passing away from life, can enter into a state of meditation-samadhi and purify their body so that after death it is preserved. This is 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 Galek-Balbar. One can only assume that Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was a practitioner of the highest level, who achieved direct comprehension of the Void - the Great Reality of all phenomena. "FROM early childhood I heard from old people and relatives about Khambo Lama Itigelov, - says the unzad lama, the leader of prayer readings, Bimba Dorzhiev, who has been serving in the Ivolginsky datsan since 1988 (he comes from Khuramshi, a village located not far from the former Yangazhinsky datsan, where Itigelov served , - Auth.). - I remember the story of how the parishioners of the Tsongolsky datsan turned to Khambo Lama Itigelov with a request to determine a new place for the construction of the datsan, since the former was flooded with water during floods.
Itigelov pointed out the place, saying that the bell and vajra of the first Khambo Lama of Damba Dorji Zayaev were buried there. And there they really discovered these objects and subsequently built a new dugan of the Khilgantuysky (Tsongolsky) datsan. The believers mistook Itigelov for the reincarnated Khambo Lama Zayaev. "They made sure that his body was preserved 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."In my mind, I always kept the idea that the current generation of Buddhist clergy needed to re-find the sarcophagus of Khambo Lama and check the condition of his body, - continues Lama Bimba Dorzhiev. “Even in a dream, I saw how we open the sarcophagus, and I became even more established in the belief that if we make the imperishable body of Khambo Lama Itigelov an object of veneration for believers, then this will be the greatest blessing.”
Dorzhiev found a man who knew about the burial place of the Teacher - the grandfather of Amgalan Dabaev, 1914 the year of birth. He saw Itigelov during his lifetime, and his father-in-law participated in 1955 in the opening of the sarcophagus. 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 place. With the help of grandfather Amgalan, the exact burial place was determined. "Our rational mind says that conservation in more or less good condition dead body is impossible. Still, 75 years have passed since the departure of Khambo Lama, - says Damba Ayusheev. - I asked everyone to move away from the sarcophagus at the most crucial moment. E. Mandarkhanov, a medical expert, approached him, and when, after some time, he confirmed that the body was safe, I felt great relief and joy. But at the same time I felt the burden of responsibility for further fate this precious body to us."
On the evening of September 10, with a large gathering of believers, the sarcophagus was met in a datsan with the honors of the highest Buddhist hierarch. Under the reading of prayers and the sounds of ritual instruments, he was placed in Divajin-dugan, where there is a model of paradise - the pure land of Buddha Amitabha, as well as the mandala of higher deities. Excitement, doubts, a sense of belonging to 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 a lifetime photograph of Khambo Lama D.-D. Itigelov with the exhumed body, dressed in a yellow terlig, and they say with confidence: "This is him."
From dawn to night in Divazhin-Dugan, lamas and huvaraki read daily special prayer- "Dambrel dodbo" - "Praise to dependent 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 a double-glazed window, to create all conditions for the further preservation of the precious relic. One of the main initiators of the opening of the burial site of Khambo Lama D.-D. Itigelova unzad lama of the Ivolginsky datsan Bimba Dorzhiev. Worshiping the body of a yogi can bring great benefits to all believers, says the respected Galek-Balbar Lama. Since the time of the disciples of Tsongkhava, the founder of the Gelukpa school (XV century), there have been attempts to preserve the body of the Teacher, but not all of them were successful. But the Buddhists of Buryatia are incredibly lucky, they can see a miracle with their own eyes. The Great Teacher was able after 75 years to reveal his imperishable body to the gaze of his followers to remind us of our frailty, impermanence and death, and the great power of the Buddha's Teaching.
"THEY CAN'T TAKE ME"
Facts of the biography of the twelfth Pandito Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov Early left an orphan, Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was brought up by Nadmit Batuev, a wealthy at that time, in the Orongoy area - now the Ivolginsky district. Having reached the age of 16, he went to study at the Aninsky datsan of the Khori steppe Duma. In those years, this datsan was one of the most famous in terms of the level of education of its lamas-priests. There he spent about 20 years studying Sanskrit, the 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 Khambo Lama. Most likely, in one of them he defended the title of Gabji Lama, which corresponds to the title of Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Returning to the Yangazhinsky datsan in the Orongoy area, he became a full-time Buddhist philosopher, it was very difficult to take this place 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, the head of the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia. On April 11, 1911, he was approved by the Governor of Irkutsk with the title 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 of the olbok pillows and, putting it on top of all the others, sat on the throne. It was the olbok Pandito Khambo Lama Eshizhamsuev Danzat-Gevan. Before his reign, among the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia, there was a long-standing dispute about the supremacy between the Khilgantuysky and Tamchinsky datsans. Itigelov's act was regarded as a sign that he had come to put an end to long-standing feuds.
Subsequently, Hambo Lama D.-D. Itigelov searched 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 the 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 from Russian government and Governor of Eastern Siberia.
In 1913, Pandito Khambo Lama participated, by special invitation, in the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty 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 colleague of Khambo Lama D-D. Itigelov. A solemn prayer service for the health and well-being of the Romanov dynasty was performed in the St. Petersburg datsan. After D.-D. Itigelov and A. Dorzhiev were photographed for memory. In the photo they are standing next to them, along with them - the famous orientalist P.K. Kozlov and his wife, later famous Buryat scientists Ts. It is also known that Khambo Lama Itigelov took part in the work of the II All-Buryat Congress, which was held in the Gusinoozersk datsan in July 1917. At the suggestion of Itigelov, the congress considered a new "Regulations on the Lamaist Clergy of Eastern Siberia".
Having left the post of Khambo Lama in 1917 due to illness, D.-D. Itigelov made a lot of efforts to preserve and prevent the pogroms of datsans in the critical years of the history of our country. Hambo Lama died in 1927. As a true Buddhist practitioner, before his death, he gave his last instructions to his disciples and asked them to start reading "huga Namshi" for him, a special prayer - good wishes for the deceased. The disciples did not dare to pronounce it in the presence of the living Teacher. Then Khambo 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 passed away from this life. Before that, he bequeathed to his students: "You will visit and see my body in 30 years."
In the lotus position, in which Khambo 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 in the same cell with Agvan Dorzhiev during his arrest in 1938, recalled that back in 1921 Itigelov warned Dorzhiev, who at that moment had 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 Dorjiev 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 - The sensational results of research into the imperishable body of a Buddhist lama were made public on Wednesday in Moscow. "Samples taken 75 years after the burial showed that the organic matter of the skin, hair and nails of this deceased person is no different from the organic matter of a living person," said the doctor. historical sciences, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University Galina Ershova.
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, the exhumation has been carried out twice: in 1955 and 1973, and both times it turned out that the body of the Hambo Lama did not smolder. The same thing was discovered for the third time, in 2002, after which the doctors decided to examine Itigelov's body. “His joints are bent, 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 come from there,” Yershova said.
According to her, "this completely contradicts the ideas of what should happen to a person after 75 years of burial." Ershova also noted that there has never been a single such fact 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 for the Buddhists of Buryatia for two years now. It is located in the Ivolginsky temple of Ulan-Ude - the main Buddhist temple 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 Buddhist believers, removed doubts from doubters, and made atheists think.” It is reported by "Interfax".
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RETURNED AS I PROMISED
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For the first time, his great-niece Yanzhima Vasilyeva tells about the miracles around the Buryat saint
This is how he passed away 78 years ago.
Two and a half years have passed since the body of the former head of the Buddhists of Russia, 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, the nose, ears, closed eyes were preserved in place (the eyeballs were in place, they did not leak out), the fingers and elbow joints were mobile. The body was fragrant. There is no bad smell to this day. The lama did not lie like a mummy, but sat in a cedar box in the lotus position.
Itigelov died unusually, ”Yanzhima Dabaevna talks about her unique ancestor. - After he resigned as head of the Buddhists of Russia in 1917, he perfected his spirit for ten years. And on June 15, 1927, he gathered his students, sat in the lotus position and asked to read the Buddhist prayer "Good wishes to 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 did indeed return. Now he sits under a glass cap in the Ivolginsky datsan (monastery). And still has not rotted - at normal room temperature.
All Buddhists believe that God has returned, - says Yanzhima Dabaevna. - For us it is a shrine. You can't treat him like a normal person. And they still tell me: what right did you have to admit scientists to the body?!
HIS BRAIN PULSE
Yanzhima Dabaevna is not only a relative of the great saint, but also the director of the Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov Institute, established in 2002, whose goal is to preserve the legacy of the “resurrected god”. And as a leader, she considered it right to scientifically fix the phenomenon, but without opening the body. They collected the hair that had fallen from the llama's head, peeled skin and cut off four milligrams of a toenail. These samples allowed the head of the Department of Personal Identification of the Russian Center to investigate forensic medical examination Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Viktor Zvyagin and Professor of the Russian Humanitarian state university Galina Ershova. The results 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 is the same as you and me, only his eyes are closed, - Itigelov's great-niece convinces me.
Professor Ershova, for example, touched his hands and felt their warmth. And the monk who accompanied Yershov took off his hat from Itigelov’s head, wiped sweat from his forehead (!) and wiped Yershova’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. That's just the blood from the liquid became jelly-like. But it is, which a person who died 78 years ago should not have. And the very famous chiropractor Alexei Azheev, who has been observing the body since 2002, even groped with his in a special way brain pulsation. In his opinion, in the living, the cerebral hemispheres give out 3-4 "bursts" per minute, and in the immobile Itigelov - 1 per minute.
A unique phenomenon that has no analogues in the world, of course, haunts scientists, - Yanzhima Dabaevna laments. - And after they had already established that his cells were alive, they decided to examine the body even deeper: to illuminate it with X-rays and to do a tomography. Itigelov, when leaving, in his will did not give orders to examine 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 that might just confirm the miracle?
Itigelov is not an exhibit for experiments. And we do not need to prove anything: we know that he is alive.
THE STETHOSCOPE IS NOT APPLIED TO THE CHEST
- Does 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 Aleksey Azheev explains this by the processes occurring inside any living organism. There is such a term "hands of the laundress". When the hands are constantly in the water, they should swell, and they shrink. It is the body that balances so as not to release moisture from itself. Itigelov has the same effect: his weight either increases or decreases.
- Are you still weighing it?
Yes. It weighs an average of 41 kg, but periodically loses or gains one kilogram in weight.
- Does the heart work?
I will not say. The stethoscope was not applied to the chest.
We still do not know who and when poured salt into the cedar box with the llama. Not the fact - that this was done from the day of burial. In addition, the salt in some places harmed his skin - dried it out.
ENLIGHTENED PERSON
- 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 Zonhava 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 acquire supernatural powers.
- What paranormal powers did the lama have?
For example, according to the surviving official police report, Itigelov on horseback once galloped over the surface of the White Lake (now called Sulfatnoe), 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 point.
- And how did he achieve this very "emptiness"?
I asked this question to the current head of the 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 great-niece 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 the soul of the first head of the Buddhist church Pandito Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia, moved into Itigelov.
We are convinced of this by interesting figures, - continues the story of Yanzhima. - Zayaev was born in 1702. He lived exactly 75 years and died in 1777. But, leaving this life, he told 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 is repeated four times mystical number- 75 years old.
- Your ancestor studied pharmacology, Tibetan medicine for more than twenty years. Maybe he invented the elixir of immortality?
If it were that easy, then many lamas would be able to use this recipe.
- How do you feel when you pass by your ancestor?
As if you enter a dark room and suddenly you feel that there is someone there - warm, alive, feeling.
Seven times a year, for big Buddhist holidays, huge queues line up for Itigelov. These days for 2005 are April 24, May 23, July 10, September 27, October 24, November 26 and January 29, 2006. The imperishable body has already been visited by more than 70 thousand believers. Some even feel his touch during worship.
We are shocked by the fact, - explains Vasilyeva, - that, leaving his will, Itigelov knew that in tens of years his body would remain incorrupt.
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WORSHIP THE “INCORRUPTIBLE BODY”
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In 2005 there will be only 7 days when believers can bow to the "imperishable body" of Khambo Lama Itigelov. The next date is February 8, the eve of the new year according to the lunar calendar.
Meanwhile, the Khambo Lama Institute continues to study the heritage of the most prominent hierarch of the Buddhist Church. The phenomenon of Itigelov is studied not only in religious terms, but also in the natural sciences. And here there are more questions than answers, after much research, scientists admitted that they were not able to explain the phenomenon of the “imperishable body”. Numerous analyzes only complicated the situation. Representatives of the traditional Buddhist sangha and the Institute of Khambo Lama Itigelov spoke about the conclusions reached by eminent Moscow scientists at a meeting with journalists.
The director of the Khambo Lama Itigelov Institute, Yanzhima Vasilyeva, explained that the study of tissue samples of the “imperishable body” by the nuclear resonance method is currently underway, and this is the end of the scientific study of the Itigelov phenomenon. Scientists have not been able to explain the mystery of the Buddhist priest, whose body was removed from the ground 75 years after the burial. They are unanimous in only one thing: the phenomenon of Itigelov is a sensation not only in the history of Buddhism, but also of humanity in general. The research was supervised by the head of the Department of Personal Identification of the Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Professor Viktor Zvyagin. He stated that studies show that the body of Khambo 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 tissue samples of the "imperishable body": hair that fell from the Lama's head, skin flakes and a cut of a nail. They were compared with samples of living people, including Professor Zvyagin himself. Based on the results, it was concluded that protein structure not broken, corresponds to a living person. Stunned and the results of the study chemical composition body. Scientists could not explain the fact that Itigelov lacks or has a negligible amount of chemical elements.
The body of Khambo Lama Itigelov has been an object of worship for the Buddhists of 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 protects from dust rather than from time. The Lama's body is not subject to him - no changes in 2 years. Almost always near the teacher is his chief caretaker Bimbo Lama. Through 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 comes from the teacher's body.
Lamas tell of many miracles taking place around the Precious Body. Including about the magical healings of people who managed to see Khambo Lama Itigelov.
This year, the sangha has named only 7 days when it will be possible to bow to his body, the nearest one is the eve of the new year according to the lunar calendar.
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PRESS CONFERENCE
ON THE PHENOMENON OF LAMA ITIGELOV AND THE PROBLEM OF IMMORTALITY
November 29, 2006 at 15.00 in Moscow at the Russian State University for the Humanities a press conference "The World Phenomenon XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov and the problem of immortality" was held, the results were made public latest research for the first time officially registered by the state forensic medical examination of the fact of preservation of the properties of a living organism 75 years after its burial.
The unique story of "life after death" by Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov was told in detail by the head of the Department of Sustainable Innovative Development of the Dubna University, 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 the Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1917. For understanding and appreciation current state Itigelov is extremely important that he went to another world while performing certain ritual actions: having gathered his close students, he sat in the lotus position and asked them to perform the Buddhist prayer “Good wishes to 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 be raised after 75 years to make sure that he was alive. In secular language, it is quite possible that he wanted to demonstrate on himself a model, some example of how you can live after death. And, apparently, he believed that a thousand years is a period sufficient for people to figure it out, to be able to understand the mechanisms, 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 in spite of time and the irreversibility of physical decay. Itigelov was still sitting in the same lotus position that he had taken while meditating when he died. He was not only outwardly recognizable, but all the signs of a living body were found in him: soft skin without any shades of decay, the nose, ears, closed eyes, fingers, and so on were preserved in place. I don't know of any such 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 the opening of the sarcophagus, the Khambo 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, and his body remained incorruptible. The pathologists who came to the datsan were amazed - the safety of the body contradicted all the official laws of nature. After much deliberation, the current head of the Buddhists of Russia decided to give scientists the opportunity to examine Itigelov's body. The examination was carried out by the head of the Department of Personal Identification of the Russian Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, Professor Viktor Zvyagin. He collected for analysis the hair that fell from the llama's head, peeled skin and cut off a few milligrams of a toenail. The results 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, each time various analyzes were carried out, but everyone came to the conclusion that Itigelov's body corresponds to all the parameters of the body of a living person, including the eyes. But to make sure that his brain works, scientists have not yet been able to. There are different points of view on this."
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ITIGELOV AND VOID
(“Novaya Gazeta”, April 6, 2007)
Few people want to know the truth about Itigelov, which breaks the usual picture of the world. People judge for themselves. It is important for them to prove to themselves that everyone is the same, that you can only live the way they do. People would be pleased to hear that Pushkin shot himself in duels "for image". What the New Testament wrote, advertising Jerusalem for tourists. That the Buddha is just an effective PR project ...
Russia is not alive because of oil prices. And "Gazprom" has nothing to do with it, and even V.V. Putin. We are saved by old women praying in churches, putting candles to the Mother of God with their last pennies. But Russia is leaving the Far East and Siberia, Russians are leaving Buryatia as well. 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, of course, know the answer, but they do not like to rant. They only mention that XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov, upon taking office, swore allegiance to Emperor Nicholas II. And everything that Itigelov did is sacred for the Buryat Buddhists.
Not Buddhists, but State Duma deputies, discussing the phenomenon of Itigelov, said that Russia owes it to him both the preservation of its eastern borders and the stabilization of the economy.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who visited the Ivolginsky datsan, said that Itigelov “continues to serve Russia,” while Vice Admiral Valery Dorogin, a Duma deputy, called him “a component national security". Here are those who have long been exploring the phenomenon of Itigelov university scientists Dubna stated that the mental body of Khambo Lama extends over 18-20 thousand kilometers. And they connected sacred phenomena with this force, which are increasingly manifested 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 kind of “fifth element”, a magical link in the chain of things and events that can save and preserve 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 of Russia - an end to the war in Chechnya, local civil wars in major cities for property. Oil prices again. And why did the president suddenly divert the pipe from Baikal, and was 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."
THE EARTH LIFE OF ITIGELOV
Since we are talking about things that people who are not familiar with Buddhism will seem unrealistic, I will tell you right away about my sources of information. Yanzhima Vasilyeva, the great-niece of Khambo Lama Itigelov and director of the Institute named after him, talking about the earthly path of her great relative, relies on the testimonies of fellow countrymen she collected, fifty archival sources, state and monastic. She immediately warned that there were three versions of Itigelov's biography: from birth, 1852, to 1895. All archivally confirmed, but contradict each other.
Also, information was received from Ganzhur Lama, the rector of the Buddhist University, Bimba Lama, the custodian of Itigelov's precious body, and XXIV Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev. Each of them contributed to the story of earthly lives Itigelov bright colors.
So, it is believed that Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was born in 1852. Nevertheless, lamas suggest that the boy was born immediately at the age of five. No one knows or knew who his mother was. The Buryats have always had a very careful attitude to the pedigree, they remembered and recorded up to 30 generations. True, in the male line, women did not fit. And the family of the father is known, about the mother - zero information. The boy grew up as an orphan - a unique case, since among the Buryats all children left without parents were brought up by relatives. The advantage of living by birth. Khambo lama Ayusheev believes that Itigelov is of unearthly origin.
The boy grazed other people's cattle and said that he would be a Khambo lama. They laughed at him. One day he appeared riding a bull with a stake in his hand. On the stake was a human skull. The lamas became aware of what had happened, they predicted a special fate and great destiny for the child. Indeed, everything was predetermined. As a boy, he went to study at the Aninsky datsan, and his teachers were people for whom, when they were just born, Tibetan lamas specially came. These children were the earthly incarnations of the Buddha of Longevity and the Buddha of Wisdom. The monks of the Aninsky datsan answered with a polite refusal: "The gods themselves know where they will 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 an allowance of 5 rubles a month and ordered the inhabitants of the surrounding villages to pay this money in turn. For more than 15 years, the inhabitants of Oybont also paid a fee for the release of Dasha Dorzho from military service - he was considered a native of the Cossack class.
And when in 1911 Itigelov was destined to become the head of the lamaist clergy in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia, all the obstacles to his election were suddenly resolved at once. A lot of people around - from lamas to the governor of Eastern Siberia - do things that help Itigelov's fate to come true. Ayusheev: “These are incredible things. It seems that everyone and everything was subordinated to the fulfillment of the mission entrusted to Itigelov.
According to the lamas, during his lifetime, Itigelov said that he knew about his three reincarnations. So, for believers, he was undeniably a reincarnation of the first Khambo Lama Zayaev, the founder of Buddhism in Russia. Zayaev was born in 1702. He lived for 75 years and, leaving, promised his students to return. In 1852, 75 years after Zayaev's death, Itigelov was born. He also lives for 75 years. And comes back to us again after 75 years. That is, the number 75 is repeated four times. When Itigelov took office as Khambo Lama, the parishioners of the Tsongol datsan, flooded during floods, asked him to determine a new place for the construction of the temple. He pointed out 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 the thousands of publications stored in the Devazhin-dugan of the Ivolginsky datsan, discovered Itigelov's previously unknown manuscript. On five sheets in Tibetan, he tells about 12 of his reincarnations over several millennia: five in India, five in Tibet and two in Buryatia. Itigelov tells how in past life, being Zayaev, he alternately presents offerings in the form of gold, silver and corals to the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama and Buddhist deities and receives from them information about his previous lives. Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev: “If even one inaccuracy had been made in this book, he would never have been able to achieve an eternal body.”
Nicholas II and the royal family revered Itigelov (I remind you that the Buryat lamas healed crowned persons), he had a lot of Russian awards. His native people, the Buryats, began to idolize him even during his lifetime. In 1903, when he was appointed shireete of the Yangazhinsky datsan, he donated all his fortune to the construction of new dugans in honor of the soldiers who died in the Russo-Japanese War. Three hundred Yangazhinsky Cossacks received a blessing from him, going to the front of the First World War, and none of them died, everyone returned home. Itigelov creates the "General Buryat Society" - to help the front. Having united 120 religious and secular persons, Itigelov raised money for the wounded and their families, organized infirmaries, sent emchi lamas to front-line hospitals. On the Orthodox Easter of 1915, the soldiers received parcels from Buddhist Buryatia.
Itigelov had no illusions about Soviet power. Unlike colleagues who hoped that the Buddhist religion would allow them to live peacefully with the new regime. Alas, the lamas soon found out that the Soviet authorities viewed everything from the standpoint 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: whether Itigelov is alive or dead, we cannot understand any other state). Buddhists profess the principle of the middle, free from extreme judgments: no love, no hate - only compassion.
It did not work out to coexist with the Bolsheviks, some of the lamas left for Tibet, others were awaiting arrests and executions - everything, as Itigelov predicted. Buddhist shrines were destroyed. The Yangazhinsky datsan was wiped to dust - the steppe was white from it, from shreds of manuscripts. And in the Aninsky datsan, a slaughterhouse was set up in the ruins of the blown up central dugan.
But all this happened after the departure of Itigelov. He himself did not try to emigrate, he said about the commissars: "They will not take me." And so it happened.
There are many legends about the arrests of Buryat yogis. Enkavedeshniki many times came for one of the lamas. Guzhi Dashinima sat in front of them and read, but they did not see him. When they got tired of these hide-and-seek games, they began to threaten the lama's students, and then he decided to give himself up new government. However, the guards soon found him dead - the lama, having entered samadhi, left the body. Ganzhur Lama told me: in those days it was still in the order of things - llamas flew, passed through walls, instantly overcame huge distances, walked and rode horses on water, like on dry land.
Relate to stories about supernatural powers Buryat yogis can be referred to as legends, but Yanzhima refers, for example, to the surviving official police report. It follows from it that in May 1917 (revolutionary outrages were already taking place), the returning front-line soldiers in the Tamchinsky datsan staged a brawl and a booze. Itigelov, having learned about this, rushed to the datsan - on a horse he rode along the surface of the White Lake (now called Sulphate Lake) as if on a paved road. Then he jumped from the steep bank of Goose Lake, cut through the water surface and rushed along the dry bottom straight to the datsan. When he jumped ashore, the waters closed behind him. The rising waves washed away some of the brawlers who had gathered in the datsan and cleared the desecrated territory. The rest, seeing Khambo Lama, fled in fear.
Itigelov, practitioner the highest level, they say, 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 point.
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 that, he turned to the monks with a request to read him a special prayer - good wishes to the departing. She escorts the dead so that the soul leaving the body finds its karmic destiny. The embarrassed disciples could not decide on this prayer while the Teacher was alive, then Itigelov began it himself. The monks were forced to pick her up. In the lotus position, in which the Khambo Lama stopped breathing, the body was buried in a bumkhan (cedar box) in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area. Before leaving completely, he gave clear instructions on how to bury him and when to visit - the first time in 30 years.
LIFE AFTER DEATH
A group of lamas raised Itigelov's body in 1955 - two years earlier than he bequeathed. The procedure was forced - a strong storm in the village of Zun Orongoy tore off the roofs, and the head of the Buddhist clergy decided to conduct the necessary rites before the appointed time. Convinced of the immutability of Itigelov's body, the lamas changed his clothes and bumkhan. The same ritual was performed in 1973. Then it was associated with a severe flood that cut off the Ivolginsky district from Ulan-Ude for a month.
The current custodian of Itigelov's body, Bimba Lama, is very friendly, but not particularly talkative, believing that only after his departure to another world will it be possible to make public "his innermost". Nevertheless, he does not hide - he always kept in mind the idea that the current generation of lamas needs to re-find Itigelov's sarcophagus 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 the wish of the Bimba Lama. He found a man who knew exactly where the Teacher was buried - the grandfather of Amgalan Dabaev, born in 1914. On September 7, 2002, he pointed out to Ayusheev the place of burial. Interestingly, Pandito Khambo Lama independently went to this place, grandfather approached him by a different path.
The lamas received the consent of their relatives for the exhumation, and on September 10 they dug out a box with the body, covered with salt, at a depth of one and a half meters. The medical examiner who was present, after examining the body, refused to do anything with it, as he had never seen such a thing. And he asked to create a commission. The lama was not only outwardly recognizable, all the signs of a living body were found in him: elastic skin without any signs of decay, the nose, ears, eyes (they are closed), fingers were preserved in place. All his joints were bent, including the smallest ones on his fingers. Perfectly preserved teeth, hair, eyelashes, eyebrows. Itigelov was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan.
Bimba Tsybikov, born in 1910, candidate of historical sciences, who had seen the lama until 1927, was invited for identification. According to him, Khamba Lama was small and very thin, and now he has become even smaller. But he immediately recognized Itigelov's features - they did not change 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 putrid odors from the contents of the box and from the corpse were not determined ... soft tissues corpse of a tightly elastic consistency, mobility in the joints is preserved. hairline on the head, the nail plates are preserved. The posture of the corpse during the extraction of the latter from the box is maintained without the use of any supporting and fixing devices. There were no traces indicating a previous opening of the body cavities for the purpose of possible embalming or conservation, as well as any injuries, traces of previous injuries, surgical interventions, diseases on the body of the corpse were not found.
First, a double-glazed sarcophagus was built for the lama, then it was decided to order two refrigerators from the Biryusa Krasnoyarsk plant. However, they did not have to be plugged into the outlet - there is no need. Itigelov does not need to be protected from time. Glass only protects from dust. The monks say that sometimes it fogs up from the inside. Bimba Lama dresses Itigelov, he also takes care of the body, wiping it with a towel. The clothes of the Khambo Lama were returned from the Museum of the History of Buryatia. The new dressing gowns were made by a seamstress from Upper Ivolga. Dr. Aleksey Azheev says he felt Itigelov roll with laughter when he and colleagues measured his body. (In a datsan, in general, you don’t always understand who they are talking about now - about a long-dead lama or about a living one. About whose emotions, whose laughter, whose lively reaction they are telling.)
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, participated in the re-examination. In addition, for examination in Moscow, Zvyagin was given samples of hair, skin that had peeled off by itself, and a cut of a nail from the lama's foot. From his comments: “The state of the tissues is such that it fully corresponds to the lifetime characteristics. We are not aware of cases of such preservation, this is a kind of scientific mystery... In many respects, the body of the Hamba 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 made sure that their composition is 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 applied in this case. There are no traces of an autopsy, extraction of the brain and internal organs, we did not find any injections, incisions, or similar effects.” Military doctors studied the cell nucleus using the nuclear resonance method. Their conclusion: the cell is alive and the nucleus is intact.
SOUL ADVENTURES
The Dalai Lama said that Itigelov has not yet reached Buddhahood, but is moving towards it. And Bogdo Gegen IX believes that the lama has already gone beyond the limits of samsara, having stopped rebirth. 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 turned brown, somewhere it became golden. When I asked whether this was a precedent in Buddhism, Ganzhur Lama answered in the negative. Attempts to preserve the bodies of teachers have been known since the Middle Ages. Having decided to leave this life, they can plunge into the state of samadhi and purify the body so that after death it is preserved.
It remains to believe in the word: 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 dead, left in it Vital energy, 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 the 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 reached enlightenment, is outside the body, but has a connection with it. And - can return.
Be that as it may, mankind has not previously been able to verify the success of preserving the body after death in an unchanged form. There are no analogues of incorruptibility that would exist today or would be known about them from archival records. The only example, which was mentioned by both Yanzhima and the Ganzhur Lama, is Bogdo Zonkhava. On the eighth day after leaving this world, his hair began to grow and he was placed in a mortar. She was in Lhasa, in 1959 the Chinese military blew her up.
By the way, the lamas say that on the basis of Bogdo Zonkhava’s work “Praise to Dependent Origination” (the root text on the emptiness of all phenomena), Itigelov made a “comprehensive and qualitative analysis emptiness and achieved direct, practical comprehension of emptiness - the great reality of all phenomena. Well, as if it were simpler ... Expert Elena Alexandrovskaya said that iron, zinc, silver, iodine were absent in the tissue samples of Itigelov's body, or they were negligible. “It feels like there, inside, emptiness! Where did it all go? She assumes that this perfect emptiness has suppressed all bacteria.
True, the Itigelov Institute forwarded her report to the Russian Academy of Sciences for evaluation, and from there they answered that this was a very rough analysis, the error was large. And since the scientists began to violate the agreements - such a study was not planned, it was decided to return the tissue samples on January 3, 2005 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, Khambo 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, for some reason, the humidity went off scale for 96%. This went on for three days, during which those around them puzzled over what to do. It has always been believed that Itigelov in 1922 plunged four sacred vessels into the ground. There were treasures medicinal herbs, sacred things - in order to harmonize relations with the owner of that area (in Buryatia, the forces of nature are spiritualized: for example, no matter what mountain you go by, you will definitely be told who its owner is - a man or a woman, and why the mistress of this mountain, which during the war earthly women to pray, let the dachas of the townspeople 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, but five such vessels. When he, the fifth, was found and performed ritual actions, Itigelov's weight immediately returned to the previous 41 kg, the humidity behind the glass returned to normal. In May 2003, the lamas lifted another vessel and loaded a copy of it under Itigelov's palace, which was under construction in the datsan. And the original, having updated, was returned to its place.
Today it is believed that more than 50 philosophical books were written by the great lama. Most are under sacred names, their authorship continues to be established even now, they are translated (so far it turns out badly into Russian, the meaning is lost), they try to decipher and interpret. Not all manuscripts have yet been found. Ganzhur Lama believes that Itigelov himself decides when to give them to us. Looks when we are ripe for them.
But the main book, the lamas say, is his body. A textbook that clearly tells about the possibilities of a person.
Per recent times Itigelov opened his eyes twice. At his institute, they say that it has not yet been clarified what this is connected with. On February 16, a few minutes before the Khambo Lama's meeting with the people, it happened again. This is the testimony of Konstantin Zhalsaraev, he was there. 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 that the lamas deliberately do not publish a huge amount of information. They can be understood. They protect both Itigelov and their lives from our "good" world.
They already know that people judge by themselves. It is important for them to prove to themselves that everyone is the same, that you can only live the way they do. People would be pleased to hear that Pushkin shot himself in duels "for image". What the New Testament wrote, advertising Jerusalem for tourists. That the 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, we in this world, unlike Itigelov, live and die.
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BUDDHA FORECAST ITIGELOV?
Scientists and theologians are trying to uncover the mystery of the imperishable body of the Hambo Lama
The international conference "The Phenomenon of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov" opened on Monday and will be held from July 2 to 3 at the Ivolginsky Datsan in Buryatia. It is dedicated to the fifth anniversary of finding 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 bei" (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 imperishable body of a lama, scientists will solve "questions on 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 succession 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 12 of his existences on earth. "The book reliably describes Itigelov's five stays in India, five in Tibet and two on the territory of Buryatia," Yanzhima Vasilyeva believes.
It is expected that representatives of the University "Dubna" will take part in the conference. It is they who own the version that the phenomenon of the pandito hambo lama is associated with the unique junction point of the Amur, Lena and Yenisei river basins, which was established in 1977 by a geography teacher of the Kusochinskaya high school Mogoytuysky district of Zhalsarayn.
There is no other point in the world 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 monument of nature and was named in honor of the outstanding researcher of Transbaikalia P.S. Pallas.
In addition, the statements of Buddha Shakyamuni intersect with this conclusion that "Buddhism will receive a new impetus for development in the northern point of its distribution, which is Buryatia". It is also of great importance that on the territory of the republic in the Egituysky datsan there is a lifetime statue of Buddha - "Zandan Zhuu", whose age is two and a half millennia.
What conclusion scientists and clerics will come to after today's conference, time will tell. However, more than 150 representatives of Buddhist and secular science came to Buryatia to talk about the phenomenon of the imperishable body, as well as to 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 the 12th 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, the sarcophagus with the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov (1852-1927) was opened in the Ivolginsky datsan. The body was removed from the "bumkhan" - the lama's burial place in the Khukhe-Zurkhen ("Blue Heart" - Bur.) area in the presence of the leadership and clergy of the Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia. 75 years after the placement of the body of the Great Lama, it has been preserved in excellent condition - in the very lotus position that Itigelov took when he performed a miracle while meditating. Physiological processes take place in it. Scientists testify that there is no explanation for this. Pilgrims come to him from thousands of miles away. Some call him the 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 Galek-Balbar Lama, "worship of the body of a yogi can bring great benefit to all believers." Since the time of the disciples of Tsongkhava, the founder of the Gelukpa school (15th century), there have been attempts to preserve the bodies of teachers, but not all of them have been successful. We can say that the Buddhists of Buryatia were lucky.
By the decision of the Central Spiritual Administration of the Sangha of Russia in 2003, the construction of the temple-palace of the Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov "Etigel Khambyn Ordon" began in Ivolginsky Datsan (Republic of Buryatia). According to the project, the main shrine in this temple-palace will be the imperishable body of the hambo lama and Buddha statues made by Buryat masters of past centuries. Today, the incorruptible body of Dasha Itigelov is on upper floors the main dugan of the Ivolginsky datsan.
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SCIENTISTS STUDY "EVERLIVE" LAMA
About 150 scientists and theologians from Europe, Mongolia, regions of Russia take part in the first international conference "Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov Phenomenon", which takes place in the official residence in Ivolginsky datsan - the traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia.
The phenomenon of the “eternally living” lama was 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 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 it in a cedar box, covered it with salt and buried it in the cemetery. Before his death, the lama gave the order to remove his body from the grave twice: after 30 and after 75 years.
The first time a llama was dug up for two years ahead of time, made sure that nothing happened to the body, and buried it again. In 1973, Itigelov's grave was again opened. For the third time (now completely) the llama was removed from the earth in 2002. The body was transported to the Ivolginsky datsan and placed in a glass sarcophagus. After some time, forensic experts were admitted to the incorruptible body, who drew up an act of external examination of the corpse. In the protocol drawn up by the experts, in particular, it says: "... skin 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 hairline on the head, the nail plates are preserved. The posture of the corpse during the extraction of the latter from the box is maintained without the use of any supporting and fixing devices. There were no traces indicating a previous opening of body cavities for the purpose of possible embalming or conservation, as well as injuries, traces of previous injuries, surgical interventions, diseases on the body of the corpse. Later, scientists began a more thorough study of the body of the llama. The head of the Department of Personal Identification of the Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation V. Zvyagin and the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian State humanitarian university G. Ershova, who stated that they did not have to deal with such a phenomenon. “Samples taken 75 years after the burial showed that the organic matter of the skin, hair and nails of this deceased person is no different from the organic matter of a living person,” says Galina Ershova. One of the experts, I. Vologdin, said: “This has never happened before in my practice ... Soft tissues are perfectly preserved. The mobility of the joints remained. And most importantly - the pose is saved. It's not a mummy, it's not relics. This is an extraordinary event that we cannot yet explain.”
The experts also found that no preservatives were used to preserve Itigelov's body. The study of the cell by the nuclear resonance method showed that the nucleus is intact, and the state of the cytoplasm is rather characteristic of living tissue. However, V. Zvyagin, answering the question of journalists whether it is still possible to consider the Khambo Lama as a living person, answered in the negative: “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 “imperishable” Buddhist. In the courtyard of the Thien temple of Dau, 23 km from Hanoi, the mummy of the abbot of the monastery of Wu Khak Min has been sitting in the lotus position for 300 years. According to legend, by the end of his days Abbot Min plunged into fasting and prayer. A hundred days later, Min turned to the monks gathered in front of him: “The time has come for me to leave this world. When my spirit flies away from the body, wait a month. If you smell decay, bury me, as it should be according to the rite. If there is no decay, leave me here to pray to the Buddha forever!" After the death of Wu Khak Min, no rotting of the body was noticed. The monks covered the abbot's body with silver paint to protect it from insects and left it to sit on a small dais in the niche of the chapel. After Vietnam gained independence, Abbot Min's mummy was X-rayed. The doctors saw the contours of the skeleton on the screen and made sure that in front of them it was really not a statue, but human body. Studies have shown that Ming'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 in 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 Shingon school. One of the ideas of the founder of the school was the idea of "Sokushin Jōbutsu" - "to become a Buddha in own body". The ascetic who embarked on this path, after prayers and meditations, proceeded to the final stage of his life, which lasted at least a thousand days. The conditions of this stage were immobility, detachment, contemplation, a special mode of breathing. The diet consisted of progressively smaller portions of food, excluding all nutritional components, such as starchy substances. The organism switched to the consumption of its own tissues, and by the end of the phase, only skin and bones remained from a person. The corpse was placed in dry conditions to speed up the drying of the remaining soft tissues. The practice of intravital mummification has become widespread among the adherents of the teachings of "shugendo" - "mountain hermitage". Mummies were exhibited in temples, they were worshiped as incarnations of the Buddhas.
However, unlike Wu Khak Min and Japanese Buddhists who practice life-time mummification, the body of Lama Itigelov did not shrivel and practically did not undergo any changes at all. Moreover, when the llama's skin was accidentally injured, a red jelly-like mass came out of the wound, into which the blood turned. Scholars note that there has never been a single such fact 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 relics of the lama are in a special temple and are the object of worship for believers. Buddhists believe that the Khambo Lama achieved the comprehension of the Void - the Great Reality of all phenomena. Therefore, leaving life, he entered a state of meditation and purified his body so that after death it is preserved. By the way, everyone can see the imperishable lama on the set days, for this even some travel agencies organized special tours.
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THE FIRST RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED IN THE DECODING OF ITIGELOV'S MESSAGE
The first results have been achieved in deciphering the message of Pandito Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov. Shireete (priest) Baldan Lama Bazarov announced this at the international conference “The Phenomenon of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov”.
According to him, deciphering began immediately after the book was found. “The work is hampered by the fact that the text is written allegorically in the old Mongolian language interspersed with Tibetan and Sanskrit,” said Baldan Lama.
Nevertheless, in two years a small part of the message was deciphered - 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 cipher of the message is not completely clear. The message itself is multi-layered - “one word in it can be interpreted in different ways,” Baldan Lama Bazarov emphasized.
The message of the shireete of the Kyakhtinsky datsan caused a lot of questions from the secular scientists gathered at the conference. “Now it is difficult to say something about the meaning of the message, how interesting it is, just as incomprehensible. Nevertheless, it exists and work on its decoding must be continued,” said Alexander Zavyalov, professor at the Novosibirsk Institute of Psychotherapy.
“It's just some kind of Buryat Nostradamus. And if you manage to decipher the message in its entirety, I think it will be the greatest knowledge for all of us,” said Tatyana Strizhova, senior researcher at the Russian State Institute for the Humanities.
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THE MYSTERY OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE LAMA IS DISCOVERED
("Arguments and Facts" dated July 4, 2007)
On September 10, 2002, the body of the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama was lifted out of the ground, and it was found that the Hambo Lama literally lives after death: he has warm hands, sweats and even opens his eyes. For the first time, leading scientists and religious figures tried to explain this phenomenon.
Now the body of Itigelov was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan as a sacred relic. The llamas take care of him, although in a rather uncomplicated 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. On it, the version of the origin of this miracle was presented to the general public for the first time.
The opening day of the conference was swelteringly hot. More than 130 forum participants gathered in the main Buddhist temple in Russia - Ivolginsky datsan - to explain the phenomenon of the imperishable body of Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov with the help of two sciences - secular and Buddhist.
Patriarchs of the Buddhist Church, religious scholars, journalists, ordinary lay people from Norway, India, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, cities of Russia arrived at the conference. “Khambo Lama Itigelov miraculously left his bodily collection of five skandhas in an unchanged state, - said, opening the forum, Khambo Lama of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia, a member Public Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation Damba Ayushev. “The moment of truth has arrived for the first time. We will decide how to deal with the phenomenon. Our conference will go down in history as the first attempt to explain the phenomenon of the precious body of Khambo Lama Itigelov.”
Then the head of the Buddhists of Russia, Damba Ayushev, announced why the body of the Khambo Lama Dasha Dorzho Itigelov did not decay. In the 20s of the last century, the 12th Khambo Lama performed the 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 keeps 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 why his body has not changed,” said Damba Ayushev. And thus, Buddhists believe, the Khambo Lama achieved the comprehension of the Void - the great reality of all phenomena. Therefore, when he passed away, he entered into 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 basically.
The conference "Phenomena XII Pandito Khambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov" dedicated to the phenomenon of the incorruptibility of the body of Lama Itigelov was held in Buryatia. 130 theologians, journalists and secular scientists from all over the world, gathered in the Ivolginsky datsan, tried to understand the reasons why, in the 80 years since the death of Khambo Lama, his body had not been touched by decay.
The “Itigelov Phenomenon” is not only poorly consistent 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 hand, it finds an explanation in the fact of faith and is fully consistent with the doctrine of Buddhism, which is based on the doctrine 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 to get his body out of 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 smoldering. According to the forensic medical expert, Doctor of Medical Sciences Viktor Zvyagin, the lama's body has no pronounced post-mortem changes. The joints are mobile, the skin is elastic. Using infrared spectrophotometry, Hambo Lama protein fractions have been shown to have in vivo characteristics.
According to Vostok-Teleinform, at a conference held in Buryatia, an expert from India, Jampa Sandepa, expressed the opinion that Itigelov is still in a long meditation, and gave examples from the history of Buddhism, when yogis reached the same state. The rector of the Ivolginsky datsan, Dagba lama Ochirov, in his report noted that Itigelov had reached the highest state in Buddhism, associated with the realization of emptiness.
It is possible that Khambo Lama Itigelov reached a state of samadhi, in which a person's breathing and heart rate are sharply reduced, and 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 released. A person who has achieved samadhi can arbitrarily regulate his life processes.
In addition to the phenomenon of the imperishability of the body of Khambo Lama Itigelov, the conference discussed his spiritual heritage, prophecies, as well as some philosophical aspects of Buddhism.
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HAMBO LAMAH RIDED A HORSE ALONG THE LAKE, AS LIKE ON THE EARTH
("Arguments and Facts" dated July 24, 2007)
According to the surviving official police report, Itigelov once rode on a horse across the surface of the White Lake (now called Sulfatnoe), as if on a paved road. He could instantly move: as soon as the door was closed behind him, he immediately found himself a kilometer away from it, turning into a point. No one, however, is able to repeat his method of realizing emptiness. The current head of the Buddhists of Russia, Khambo Lama Ayusheev, said on this score:
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 "Phenomenon XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov" was held in the Ivolginsky datsan. According to the plan of the organizers, it should not have had a pronounced 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 located are divided. A Buddhist scholar from India, Jampa Sandepa, is sure that Itigelov is still in a state of prolonged meditation. In the history of Buddhism, yogis have repeatedly reached the same state.
Indeed, the hermits in Tibet, who decided to cultivate themselves by renunciation of 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. At the end of the term, the hermit returned to the world, but not for long. The next time taking seclusion until the end of his days.
No one gave Itigelov food for 75 years, and he left on the eve of the persecution against the lamas, having previously said that they would not have time to take him. Thus, he managed to avoid repressions and not see the destruction of datsans and the desecration of faith.
The life of a yogi is by no means colorless and not useless, he can be useful indirectly, through his thoughts - waves of energy, which become material when concentrated. A directed and partially concentrated thought can move objects, turn into an instrument of telepathy and make a person perform certain actions at a distance. 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 custodian of the Precious Body of the Gelong Lama Bimba Dorzhiev, no analogues of Itigelov's phenomenon, despite the search, have yet been found.
According to other lamas, Khambo Itigelov kept his body, foreseeing troubled times. He left himself the opportunity to right time return to the world to save people from suffering. Lamas believe that already now Itigelov has brought colossal benefits to all living things. By helping living beings to escape from suffering and find a good birth, he thereby contributes to the purification of the common karma of the whole world.
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KHAMBO-LAM ETIGELOV SURPRISED AGAIN
Khambo Lama Etigelov, photo memorial.krsk.ru
The Buddhist traditional sangha of Russia presented new materials on the phenomenon of the imperishable body of the Buddhist saint, the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama Etigelov. The teachings of the saint and his answers to the questions that the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan receive every morning directly from the Khambo Lama Etigelov are today classified by topic and collected in a separate collection.
This unique source was presented for the first time by the current 24th Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev at the International Conference "The Phenomenon of the XII Pandito Khambo Lama Etigelov" that began today in 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, USA, Uzbekistan.
This is the fifth scientific conference dedicated to the phenomenon of Etigelov, which is held under the auspices of the Traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia (BTSR). Traditionally, the organizers of the conference are the Buddhist University "Dashi Choynhorlin" (BTSR), the Institute of Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov and the Ivolginsky datsan "Khambyn Khuree".
This is the fifth conference. I believe that the time when we discussed the biography of the Khambo Lama Etigelov, the history of his life and the legends and traditions associated with it, has passed, - the current Pandito Khambo Lama of the BTSR Damba Ayusheev told the Asia Russia Daily (ARD) Internet portal. - We, like true Buddhists, do not live in the past and will not look far into the future. Today we are trying to live according to the instructions that Khambo Lama Etigelov gives us every day.
He talks about teaching and teacher, about Shakyamuni Buddha and Buddhism, about bodhisattvas and buddhas-dhyanis, about idams and dakinis, about sahuyusans and celestials, "masters of the area" and nagas. That is, about the pantheon of Buddhism. At the same time, he tells us about moral concepts, about compassion, peace, bodhichitta, as well as about various aspects of life, about mother tongue, homeland, climate, human health and much more. Very interesting things the Hambo Lama says about the bosses! (laughs). Therefore, our task is to ensure that everything that the Khambo Lama Etigelov gives us in his messages is collected and not lost to people. I hope that after this conference some of his words will enter people's lives!
"NOTES" FROM KHAMBO-LAMA ETIGELOV
Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev told the ARD about how information is technically exchanged between the imperishable body of Etigelov and the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan. It turns out that every morning over the past few years, the chief custodian of the "erdeni munhe bee" ("precious imperishable body"), the 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 "forever living saint.
Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev told the ARD about how information is technically exchanged between the imperishable body of Etigelov and the lamas of the Ivolginsky datsan.
This is how the servants of the datsan describe this process. Having entered a special state, similar to insight, Bimba Lama receives information "on the subtle plane" from Khambo Lama Etigelov and writes it down on a piece of paper. Moreover, the message is transmitted almost every day (if the Bimba Lama is not sick) in two languages, Buryat and Tibetan. Allegedly, at first Khambo Lama Etigelov himself in the Buryat language describes the 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!
Acting Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev said that every morning (until 11.00 am) he receives a leaflet with the information on it from the chief custodian of Lama Bimba Dorzhiev. For example, today, June 27, 2015, on the opening day of the International Conference, he received the following information: "Two students hold their teacher's hands on both sides. He has been sitting 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 siddhis, supernatural abilities (in Tibetan - S.B.)."
Every day I receive such a gift from the Bimba Lama (a note - S.B.) and throughout the day I walk and think. By the evening I go to my native Twitter (laughs) and post it all in Russian! - Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheev described his day to the ARD.
Materials from the personal page of the Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev on the Twitter social network with daily messages from the "eternally living" Lama Etigelov have already accumulated for quite an impressive brochure. The traditional Buddhist Sangha managed to publish this book with a breakdown of messages by topic just before the beginning of the international scientific conference about the Etigelov phenomenon. And all the participants of the conference taking place on June 27-28, 2015 today got acquainted with the most striking "letters" of the saint, set out in the leading report scientific forum, which was presented by the head of the BTSR himself.
BUDDHA ETIGELOV?
In the report "The Path of Compassion - the Path of Freedom" by Doctor of Economics Alexander Khachaturov, Director of the Institute of Economics and Management of the Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technical University (Moscow), it was 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 the Khambo Lama Etigelov. And I think it's already clear to all of us: the Buddha is back! - said Dr. Alexander Khachaturov from the rostrum of the conference, clearly posing 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 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, it is impossible to explain Etigelov's phenomenon within the framework of today's natural scientific ideas, since his body "is in some kind of energy, material, informational or other exchange with outside world, that is, 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, set the properties of matter at the stage of structure genesis, 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 the information impact can change the properties of a substance at the degree of its formation. And, probably, this approach can 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 imperishable body of Dashi-Dorzho Etigelov will continue tomorrow.
A large number of reports will be presented by the guests of the conference from Mongolia. Moreover, both representatives of Mongolian Buddhists and scientists will speak. Among the speakers are also employees of the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Buryat State University, the East Siberian Academy of Culture, the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Buddhist University "Dashi Choynhorlin", specialists in the field of neuropathology, medicine, programming, members of the Russian and American Geographical Societies.
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LAMA ITIGELOV
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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 burial place of a lama in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area, in the presence of the leadership and clergy of the traditional Buddhist 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 very lotus position that Itigelov took when, meditating, he passed away.
Even among very advanced Buddhist practitioners, achieving an imperishable body is the rarest case, representatives of the traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia believe. Only great Teachers, passing away from life, can enter into a state of meditation-samadhi and purify their body so that after death it is preserved. This is 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 Galek-Balbar. One can only assume that Khambo Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov was a practitioner of the highest level, who achieved direct comprehension of the Void - the Great Reality of all phenomena.
A selection of materials from the Internet
The Buryat Lama Itigelov slowed down, almost stopped time.
Lama Itigelov meditates
for 86 years without filing external signs life. He has the consciousness of an intrauterine baby, and the biofield reaches a value of 23 ... A couple of years after extracting the incorruptible from the earth (Buddhists of Buryatia prefer to say "Precious and Inexhaustible") body Khambo Lama Itigelov it was investigated by scientists, taking samples of some tissues. Their conclusion:a person who died in 1927 is in a state unknown to science.
The scientists called this miracle "The phenomenon of Khambo Lama Itigelov".
The phenomenon of life after death is that our ideas about the world are destroyed. After all, before we could not make sure that the body was preserved in an incorruptible form after death.
Here is what S. Fetisov said about this: "Itigelov is a different form of life." And this means that consciousness is stronger than matter, and it is it that creates miracles in our material world.
Many call Itigelov the Buddha. However, the Dalai Lama noted that Dorjo has not yet reached the state of Buddha Dashi, but is moving towards it.One of the wishes of Khambo Lama Itigelov to all the rest is to apply "Practice of the Ten Good Deeds".
There are deeds of the body (murder, theft, adultery); there are acts of speech (lie, swearing, slander, idle talk); there are deeds that affect the mind (greed, malice, false views).
Good deeds are the opposite of data, that is: do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery ...
So, it is believed that Dashi Dorzho Itigelov was born in 1852. Howeverless llamas suggest that the boy was born at the age offive years. No one knows or knew who his mother was. The Buryats have always hadvery careful attitude to the pedigree, remembered and recorded up to 30 generations.The body of the great lama remained incorruptible.
The body was seized from the bumkhana - the place
lama burial in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area in the presence of the leadership and
priests of the traditional Buddhist Sangha of Russia.
True, in the male line, women are notfit in. And the family of the father is known, about the mother - zero information. The boy grew upan orphan is a unique case, since among the Buryats all children left withoutparents raised by relatives.
The advantage of living by birth. Khambo Lama Ayusheev believes that Itigelov is of unearthly origin.
The boy grazed other people's cattle and said that he would be a Khambo lama.
They laughed at him. One day he appeared riding a bull with a stake in his hand. On the stake was a human skull. The lamas became aware of what had happened, they predicted a special fate and great destiny for the child.
Indeed, everything was predetermined. As a boy, he went to study at the Aninsky datsan, and his teachers were people for whom, when they were just born, Tibetan lamas specially came. These children were the earthly incarnations of the Buddha of Longevity and the Buddha of Wisdom. The monks of the Aninsky datsan answered with a polite refusal:
"The gods themselves know where they be born." And his teacher was shireete (rector) of Aninsky datsana, the earthly incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion.He assigned the student an allowance of 5 rubles a month and ordered the inhabitants of the surrounding villages to pay this money in turn.
For more than 15 years, the inhabitants of Oybont also paid a fee for the release of Dasha Dorzho from military service - he was considered a native of the Cossack class.
And when in 1911 Itigelov was destined to become the head of the lamaist clergy in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia, all the obstacles to his election were suddenly resolved at once. Many people around - from lamas to the governor of Eastern Siberia - commit
actions that help to accomplish the fate of Itigelov. Ayusheev:
“These are incredible things. It seems that everyone and everything was subordinated to the fulfillment of the mission entrusted to Itigelov.
According to the testimony of lamas, during lifeItigelov said that he knew about his three reincarnations. Yes, forbelievers, he was indisputably a reincarnation of the first Khambo Lama Zayaev -founder of Buddhism in Russia. Zayaev was born in 1702. Lived 75 yearsand, leaving, promised the disciples to return. In 1852, 75 years afterZayaev's death, Itigelov was born.He also lives for 75 years. And comes back to us again after 75 years. That is, the number 75 is repeated four times. When Itigelov took office as Khambo Lama, the parishioners of the Tsongol datsan, flooded during floods, asked him to determine a new place for the construction of the temple. He pointed out 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 was among the thousands of publications stored in the Devazhin-dugan of Ivolginsky
datsan, discovered a previously unknown manuscript of Itigelov.
Itigelov tells how in a past life, being Zayaev, he presents in turn offerings in the form of gold, silver and corals to the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama and Buddhist deities and receives from them information about his previous lives.
Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev: “Had there 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 (I remind you that the Buryat lamas healed crowned persons), he had many Russian awards. His native people, the Buryats, began to idolize him even during his lifetime. In 1903, when he was appointed shireete of the Yangazhinsky datsan, he donated all his fortune to the construction of new dugans in honor of the soldiers who died in the Russo-Japanese War.
Three hundred Yangazhinsky Cossacks receivedblessing from him, going to the front of the First World War, andnone of them died, all returned home. Itigelov creates "Common Buryat Society"- to help the front.Having united 120 religious and secular persons, Itigelov raised money for the wounded and their families, organized infirmaries, sent emchi lamas to front-line hospitals. On the Orthodox Easter of 1915, the soldiers received parcels from Buddhist Buryatia.
Itigelov had no illusions about Soviet power. AT unlike colleagues who hoped that the Buddhist religion would allow peaceful get along with the new regime.Alas, the lamas soon found out that the Sovietpower considers everything from the position of two extremes: eternal and 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: living Itigelov
or dead, we cannot understand any other state).
Buddhists, on the other hand, profess the principle of the middle, free from extreme judgments: no love, no hate - only compassion.
Coexistence with the Bolsheviks did not work out, some of the lamas left for Tibet, others were awaiting arrests and executions - everything, as Itigelov predicted. Buddhist shrines were destroyed. The Yangazhinsky datsan was wiped to dust - the steppe was white from it, from shreds of manuscripts. And in the Aninsky datsan, a slaughterhouse was set up in the ruins of the blown up central dugan.
But all this happened after the departure of Itigelov. 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.
Enkavedeshniki many times came for one of the lamas. Guzhi Dashinima sat in front of them and read, but they did not see him. When they got tired of these hide-and-seek games, they began to threaten the lama's students, and then he decided to give himself into the hands of the new government.
However, the guards soon found him dead - the lama, having entered samadhi, left the body. The Ganzhur Lama told me: in those days it was still in the order of things - lamas flew, passed through walls, instantly covered vast distances, walked and rode horses on water, like on dry land.
Relate to the stories about the supernatural powers of the Buryat yogiscan be like legends, but Yanzhima refers, for example, to the survivingofficial police report. It follows that in May 1917(revolutionary outrages have already occurred) returning front-line soldiers toTamchinsky datsans staged a brawl and a booze. Itigelov, having learned about this,rushed to the datsan - rode on a horse across the surface of the White Lake (nowcalled Sulfate) as if on a paved road.Then he jumped from the steep bank of Goose Lake, cut through the water surface and rushed along the dry bottom straight to the datsan. When he jumped ashore, the waters closed behind him. The rising waves washed away some of the brawlers who had gathered in the datsan and cleared the desecrated territory. The rest, seeing Khambo Lama, fled in fear.
Itigelov, practitioner of the highest level, they say, could instantly move: as soon as he closed the door, he immediately found himself a kilometer away from it, turning into point.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 that, he turned to the monks with a request to read him a special prayer - good wishes to the departing.
She escorts the dead, so that the soul,leaving the body, found its karmic destiny. Confusedthe disciples could not decide on this prayer in the presence of a living Teacher, thenItigelov started it himself. The monks were forced to pick her up.In the lotus position, in which the Khambo Lama stopped breathing, the body was buried in a bumkhan (cedar box) in the Khukhe-Zurkhen area. Before leaving completely, he gave clear instructions on how to bury him and when to visit him - the first time in 30 years.
Life after death
A group of lamas lifted Itigelov's body into1955 - two years earlier than he bequeathed. The procedure was forcedthe strongest storm in the village of Zun Orongoy tore off the roofs, and the head of the BuddhistThe clergy decided to conduct the necessary ceremonies before the named date.Convinced of the immutability of Itigelov's body, the lamas changed his clothes and bumkhan. The same ritual was performed in 1973. Then it was associated with a severe flood that cut off the Ivolginsky district from Ulan-Ude for a month.
The current body keeper of Itigelov Bimba Lama is very friendly, but not particularly talkative, believing thatonly after his departure to another world will it be possible to publish “hissecret." Nevertheless, he does not hide - he always kept in mind the thought,that the current generation of lamas needs to re-find Itigelov's sarcophagus andcheck the condition of his body.He saw in a dream his meeting with the great Teacher. The discovery of his message only confirmed the wish of the Bimba Lama.
He found a man who knew exactly where Master was buried - grandfather Amgalan Dabaev, 1914 year of birth. On September 7, 2002, he pointed out to Ayusheev the place of burial. Interestingly, Pandito Khambo Lama independently went to this place, grandfather approached him by a different path.
The lamas received the consent of their relatives for the exhumation, and on September 10 they dug out a box with the body, covered with salt, at a depth of one and a half meters.
The medical examiner who was present, after examining the body, refused to do anything with it, as he had never seen such a thing.And asked for a commission. Lama was not only outwardly recognizable, he found all the signs of a living body: elastic skin without any signs of decay, the nose, ears, eyes were preserved in place (they are closed), fingers.
All his joints were bent, including the smallest ones on his fingers. Perfectly preserved teeth, hair, eyelashes, eyebrows. Itigelov was transferred to the Ivolginsky datsan.
Invited for recognition who saw the lama until 1927 Bimba Tsybikov, born in 1910, candidate of historical sciences. According to him, Khamba Lama was a small growth and very thin, and has now become even smaller. But he immediately recognized the featuresItigelov's faces - they have not changed at all.
From the “act of external examination exhumed corpse,” signed on 11 September by three leading specialists of the republican center of forensic medical examination:“Any outsiders aromatic, resinous or putrid odors from the contents of the box and from the corpse were not determined ...The soft tissues of the corpse are of a tightly elastic consistency, mobility in the joints is preserved.
The hairline on the head, the nail plates are preserved. The posture of the corpse during the extraction of the latter from the box is maintained without the use of any supporting and fixing devices.
No trace testifying to a previously performed opening of body cavities in order to possible embalming or conservation, as well as any damage, traces of previous injuries, surgical interventions, diseases no corpse was found on the body.”The Dalai Lama said that Itigelov has not yet reached Buddhahood, but is moving towards it. And Bogdo Gegen IX believes that the lama has already gone beyond the limits of samsara, having stopped rebirth.
Tem time, people who observe the llama over the years note that that his hair has grown and darkened and the color of his skin has changed somewhat - in some places it turned brown, somewhere it became golden.When I asked whether this was a precedent in Buddhism, Ganzhur Lama answered in the negative. Attempts to preserve the bodies of teachers have been known since the Middle Ages. Having decided to leave this life, they can plunge into the state of samadhi and purify the body so that after death it
is saved.
In other words, Itigelov slowed down, almost stopped time. The body only seems to be dead, life energy is left in it, and it must be protected from external influences.
That's why before immersing in samadhi, the monks retired to inaccessible to others caves. Who has not heard the legends about the Tibetan caves, in which frozen yogis have been “sitting” for centuries?I also heard a slightly different explanation.(in general, as you understand, the hierarchs of Buddhism demonstrate an enviablepluralism of opinions regarding the state of Itigelov). His soul reachedenlightenment, outside the body, but has a connection with it. And it might come back.
Be that as it may, mankind has not previously been able to verify the success of preserving the body after death in an unchanged form. 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 the Ganzhur Lama is Bogdo Zonkhava.
On the eighth day after leaving this world, his hair began to grow and he was placed in a mortar. She was in Lhasa, in 1959 the Chinese military blew her up.
Expert Elena Alexandrovskaya said that iron, zinc, silver, iodine were absent in Itigelov’s body tissue samples, or they were negligible.
“Such the feeling that there, inside, emptiness! Where did it all go? She is suggests that this perfect emptiness has suppressed all bacteria.True, her report to the Itigelov Instituteforwarded to the Russian Academy of Sciences for evaluation, and from there they answered that it was very rudeanalysis, the error is large. And since scientists began to violatereservations - such a study was not planned, tissue samples 3January 2005, it was decided to return to their homeland.
This was accompanied by an ugly
history: Professor Zvyagin was warned that the photo of the great lama without
clothes (it was allowed to be made for anthropological research)
must seep into the tabloid press. But that's exactly what happened.
Leaving his will, Itigelov knew thathis body will not be touched by decay. But the trick is that this emptiness is not onlycomprehended and meaningful, Khambo Lama from it, independent of ourtime 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, for some reason, the humidity went off scale for 96%.
This went on for three days, duringwhich others puzzled over what to do. It has always been considered thatItigelov in 1922 plunged four sacred vessels into the ground.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, no matter what mountain you go by, you will definitely be told who its owner is - a man or a woman, and why the mistress of this mountain , which during the war earthly women went to pray, let the townspeople dachas come to 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" 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 performed ritual actions, Itigelov’s weight immediately returned to the previous 41 kg, humidity behind the glass returned to normal.In May 2003, the lamas raised another vessel and a copy of it were loaded under the palace under construction in the datsan Itigelov. And the original, having updated, was returned to its place.
Today it is believed that more than 50 philosophical books were written by the great lama. Most of them are under sacred names, their authorship continues to be established even now, they are translated into Russian (so far it turns out badly, the meaning is lost), they try to
decipher and interpret.
But the main book, the lamas say, is his body. A textbook that clearly tells about the possibilities of a person.
Recently, Itigelov opened his eyes twice.
At his institute, they say that it has not yet been clarified what this is connected with. On February 16, a few minutes before the Khambo Lama's meeting with the people, it happened again. This is the testimony of Konstantin Zhalsaraev, he was there. 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:a huge amount of information lamas deliberately do not make public. They canunderstand. They protect both Itigelov and their lives from our “good” world.Dashi Dorzho Itigelov (in translation: the sun and the diamond of faith) or Pandito Khambo 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 was not touched 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 Choynzon-Dorzho Iroltuev, 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 Hamba Lama. During his lifetime, he became famous for his religious Buddhist activities and was the head of all Buddhists in Eastern Siberia. His educational and activity is still remembered.
From childhood, he was distinguished by purposefulness and a strong character. Many have 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 told Lama Agvan Dorzhiev, who returned to his homeland from Mongolia: “You should not have returned here. It would be better if you stayed abroad. Lamas will be arrested soon. If you fall into their hands, they won’t leave you alive,” to which Agvan asked: “Why don’t you leave yourself?” Itigelov replied: “They won’t have time to take me.” Subsequently, this is what happened. Even as a child, when he was grazing cattle with a wealthy family, he told the mistress that he would become the head of the Buddhists, the Khambo Lama, but she only laughed in response. In 1998, Itigelov's messages were found in the library of the Ivolginsky datsan, which shock with their accurate prophecies.
On June 15, 1927, the 12th Khambo Lama Dasha-Dorzho Itigelov gathered his students and sat in the lotus position. He ordered his students to open the grave after 30 years, and see what condition his body would be in. Then, together with his students, he read a special mantra-prayer for the deceased and went into nirvana, from which he never left and, as 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 (bumhan) in the lotus position.
Since then, his body has remained incorruptible, as if Itigelov lives to this day. However, its safety was not discovered at all during the latter. In 1955, as bequeathed by the 12th Khambo Lama, a group of lamas opened the grave. They made sure that Itigelov was still in a state of nirvana, changed his clothes, performed the necessary rites and put the body back. The second time the grave was opened was 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 have received llama tissues - hair, skin particles, sections of nails. After studying, they 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 does not have a putrid smell and the 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 importance, the Itigelov Institute was built.
Itigelov's body is the real proof of the power of faith. Thousands of tourists who are amazed by the existence of such a miracle annually visit the place - Ivolginsky datsan, where his body is kept in a glass sarcophagus and see with their own eyes how amazing life and faith can be.
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On October 9, a surveillance camera in the Ivolginsky datsan recorded movement in the Residence of Khambo Lama Itigelov. On the footage at 20:05 on the floor, on the carpet, a man is sitting in the lotus position. The same plan from the previous angle, but a day later - there is no one on the floor. Who or what is in the footage? They tried to answer this question for three days. Discussed not only in Buryatia, but throughout Russia. The Buddhists themselves remained silent to the last. They broke it just the night before.
Damba Ayusheev, Khambo Lama of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia: We still need to understand for ourselves whether this is the image of the angels-protectors of our Khambo Lama, who came in this guise, but the lamas and I think that it was Khambo Itigelov himself.
Khambo Lama Itigelov is a legendary man and now a shrine. Was born in mid-nineteenth century. At the age of 15, he walked to the Aninsky datsan, where he comprehended the teachings of the Buddha for 23 years. After he became the supreme head of all datsans of Buryatia. There were legends about him. They said that he could levitate, walk through walls and even on water.
- When there was an uprising in the monastery on Goose Lake, a rebellion, he was able to walk along Goose Lake and calmed this uprising.
Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov passed away mysteriously too. Gathered the disciples, sat in the lotus position, and under the prayer-good wishes to the deceased went to nirvana. Previously asked to visit the body after 75 years. In 2002, Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheev, together with a group of lamas, raised the sarcophagus. The body remained incorruptible. Scientists have concluded: XII Pandito Khambo Lama Itigelov is a phenomenon.
- It seems to bring relief to people - those who are sick. If someone is mistaken, he directs to the right path.
Frames of the residence where the imperishable body is kept. The same carpet, on which, according to the lamas, Itigelov sat on the ninth of October. Usually his place is on the altar. It is hard to imagine that he could move as much as eight meters. The clothes are also surprising: in the footage from the video camera, a man in something strongly reminiscent of camouflage.
Belikto Dugarov, lawyer of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia: The fact that some passing person with two shopping bags in camouflage uniform went there, as they say in in social networks, is excluded. The palace was locked.
The temple closes at exactly six in the evening, put on the alarm. There are three security cameras inside, they were installed in 2010. Recording is ongoing around the clock. The presence of strangers is excluded. So who could it be?
- In principle, it is true that he gets up, walks or whatever.
- Well, everything is possible if such a phenomenon ...
Lawyers and programmers of the traditional Sangha of Russia intend to continue studying data from video cameras. The lamas themselves intend to watch Itigelov. They suggest that his appearance may be repeated in auspicious days duisen, they fall on the 2nd, 8th, 29th and 30th of each month according to the lunar calendar.
