A little Baidu, the relic in the picture is completely different from ordinary bones. Its shapes are ever-changing, including round, oval, lotus, and even Buddha or bodhisattva. Its colors are white, black, green and red, and some relics are like pearls, agates, crystals, transparency and even diamonds.
Some scholars have suggested that Buddhist monks have been vegetarian for a long time and ingested a lot of fibers and minerals. After human metabolism, it is easy to form a lot of phosphates and carbonates, so eventually crystals precipitate in the body and form various relics.
Aside from Buddhism, what do you think of Buddhist relics with scientific thinking? In fact, there is no difference in biological composition between practitioners and ordinary people. Clothes and fat will start to burn at around 200 degrees Celsius, and muscle tissues and organs and blood will fully burn at around 500 to 600 degrees Celsius. Eventually, the furnace will be heated to 900 degrees Celsius, not to mention that bones and even stones will burn to ashes, not to mention minerals and fibers deposited by the human body.
But the difference is that the cremation of monks is different from that of ordinary people, because monks have to wear a lot of funerary objects when cremation, and some valuable jewelry has also been pushed into the stove to burn.
Therefore, in the absence of deliberate fraud, things of different shapes and sizes left by monks after cremation are not ashes, but fragments left by expensive ornaments after burning at high temperature. Some things may not stand the high temperature and have burned out, while others have not, but they are not what they used to be.
The changed relics defiled Buddhism. I believe that at first, Buddhist believers paid tribute to their religious ancestors, and there is no doubt that they left relics to commemorate them. In this world, most amazing architectural miracles are created under this mentality.
However, many people have lost their faith now. Are they cheating less for the benefit? If you look up the patent number slightly, it is very interesting, and you will find the following:
Patent number ZL2007 100 10278.8, inventor Zhao Dongnian, patent name "Method of making relics", this patent is to use human ashes, add crystals and silicate metals to color, prepare raw materials in proportion, press mold to make a wet blank, sinter at 1300 degrees Celsius, and finally print a motto or seal.
The patent number is 2009 100 10807.2, and so is the inventor. This patent is a manufacturing method of artificial cultural relics.
So now, if you go to temples, especially those places that claim to have many monks, most of the relics sold there are these things. In fact, this method is not a threshold at all. Before 2007, pebbles, handicrafts, fake gems and glass beads were added to the stove and sold as relics.
The true chemical composition of the remains is actually not complicated. I put pictures in the manuscript. You can look at the first public Indian monk relic. When India was colonized, Cunningham, the British director of the Indian Archaeological Bureau, took this cultural relic and kept it in the Victoria and Elbert Museums. Later, India became independent, negotiated with Britain and returned these cultural relics.
As you can see from the pictures, most of the real relics are actually human bones. What you see in the market is mostly fake, that is, mixed silicate of human bone and crystal.
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