Meet Luang Pho Daeng, The World’s Chillest Mummy

Luang Pho Daeng eyes, a Buddhist monk passing away more than 4 decades ago. To be considered the World’s Chillest Mummy.
Luang Pho Daeng ceased to eat and drink, dehydrating his body to be preserved after his death, in his final seven days.
Upon visiting the temple of Wat Khunaram in Thailand, one will be welcome with a smiling face wearing a pair of ray-ban. Well, it’s not the face of your, or another, tour guide. It’s the frozen visage of Luang Pho Daeng, a Buddhist monk passing away more than 4 decades ago.
Luang Pho Daeng eyes, a Buddhist monk passing away more than 4 decades ago. To be considered the World’s Chillest Mummy.

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Growing up in the turn-of-the-century Thailand, Luang Pho Daeng was shortly engrossed in becoming a monk in his 20s. But after having met a beautiful girl who later became his wife, he decided against that path. Raising 6 children with his wife, he decided to continue down his childhood dream and become a Buddhist monk, in his 50s, when all of his children had grown up.
Luang Pho Daeng started to enthusiastically learn Buddhist texts and meditation, quickly on his way to become a highly respected monk. Shortly an abbot at a temple in southern Thailand, he then returned home to teach at the nearby temple, Wat Khunaram. It was there that Luang Pho Daeng would spend the final moments of his life.

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At the age of 79, when the monk was teaching at Wat Khunaram, he summoned his students to his quarters, letting them know that he felt his death was imminent. Luang Pho Daeng told his students that he would like to remain at the temple if his body didn’t decompose, being put in an upright posture as a symbol to inspire future generations to follow Buddhist teaching.
He died 2 months then, proving the statement to be prophetic. He even made sure his body was well-prepared for preservation before his death, in keeping with the Buddhist practice of self-mummification, believed to have emerged from Northern Japan, which includes monks gradually decreasing their food and drink before they ultimately die of starvation.

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The practice is meant to exhibit an extreme dismissal of all human pleasures and needs, thought to demonstrate a high form of enlightenment. A preserved, mummified corpse is the result of the decrease of body fat and body dehydration.
Daeng concentrated completely on meditation, discovered dead while still meditating in the lotus position, in the final weeks leading up to his death, when he stopped eating and drinking. His disciples honored his wishes and put his mummified body in a glass case in the temple.

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However, his corpse’s eyes fell through into the back of his skull, despite the fact that much of the skin and internal organs of the body had been preserved thanks to his dehydration. Because of this, the monks in the temple put a pair of sunglasses on his face, covering his fearsome eye sockets.
Now, the body of Luang Pho Daeng is an attraction to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike who visit this temple to observe the famous Thai mummy. Recent radiological surveys of the body have revealed that Daeng’s dentures are still in his mouth.
They also found that a native gecko species have been laying eggs under the skin of Daeng’s corpse. Even in death, he is still providing for those around him.
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