The head of the Phichit province monastery told a local TV station that the use of corpses was part of a 'meditation technique' he developed.
A Buddhist monastery in Thailand is under investigation after authorities discovered more than 40 bodies on site which were allegedly used for meditation practices, police said Sunday.Forty-one cadavers were found at Pa Nakhon Chaibovorn monastery in Thailand's Phichit province on Saturday, a senior police officer told AFP.'The bodies were accompanied with death and body donation certificates,' he said, adding that so far no charges have been filed.
The head of the Phichit province monastery, Phra Ajarn Saifon Phandito, told Thai PBS television channel that the use of corpses was part of a 'meditation technique' he developed.'Many of the people who come to learn are abbots and all these monks... pass on the knowledge,' he said. 'I don't know how many have adopted my technique.'He also told another local TV station that 'practitioners meditate in pavilions that hold coffins with the human remains.
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