Will this madness never end?

Dead monk sketch

We're all familiar with Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. With that in mind, comes news of a mummified Buddhist monk who is, according to living, breathing Buddhists, simply in a deep state of meditation.

Senior Buddhists say the monk, found sitting in the lotus position, is in a deep meditative trance and not dead.

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But he really looks dead to me.

'E's not dead, 'e's resting meditating