GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA- Mantra of the Heart Sutra

Sokushinbutsu, an Ascetic practice of alleged self-mummification for the benefit of all sentient beings. Apparently completed through the process of “consuming a tree”, in which the ultimate alternative diet of only pine nuts, needles, resin and lacquer tea slims the practitioner hollow. It’s finished up with a bell attached to let attendants know if the ascetic is still alive or not. Though alternative lines of research suggest preservation of the body was done after naturally passing on. These preserved awakened ones are entombed as exemplars and examples of enlightened ones, also showing up in popular eastern role playing franchises.

I went and got my sona drawn in this style for spooktober by the pleasant corgi  Vir-no-Vigoratus as part of his series of supernatural art. Do give the rest of his art a view