"[Buddhism and its harsh training] People in Japan were training to become mummies!"

There was a practice in Japanese Buddhism called Sokushinbutsu, in which a monk would mummify himself. In Japanese Buddhism, it was thought that a monk does not die, and that he will enter eternal meditation in order to save the masses until the advent of Miroku Bosatsu beyond the border of life and death. After a monk was buried alive, his body remained preserved and he became a mummified Sokushinbutsu Buddha. This practice is now illegal, but in the past, some noble monks would dedicate their lives to such training and go on to become mummies in the end. Lasting 2,000 days, their training was unimaginably strict, and those who practiced it were virtually training to die. Why did they go so far as to train to become a Sokushinbutsu? And what kind of Sokushinbutsu remain in Japan now?

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