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The Buddhist monk Luang Pho Daeng died while meditating in 1973. In accordance with his wishes, his mummified body was placed in a glass coffin and put on public display. Sunglasses were later placed over his empty eye sockets so that his appearance would not frighten small children.
by /u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit | 106 comments | 2026-06-12T21:53:21+00:00 Central
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| /u/sarcastic_patriot Sure, the eyes were the terrifying part of that whole display. |
| /u/NiConcussions You must not have walked by the scratch and sniff display. |
| /u/LordCommander94 What about the touch and hold display? |
| /u/AmountFun5697 ahh but you are forgetting the most important! the taste test. |
| /u/PretendsToBeAnArtist https://i.redd.it/bgnu9z6l1y6h1.gif |
| /u/LordCommander94 Ahh yes.. you mean the taste and ingest test. Classy. |
| /u/CamelCaseConvention We're just a bunch of wimps here. Victorian people ate mummies for fun. |
| /u/AmountFun5697 exactly what i was thinking |
| /u/Main-Towel-3678 I personally enjoyed the nut and bolt window. |
| /u/MechanicalTurkish https://giphy.com/gifs/xUNd9QgrvD0Iol0VUY |
| /u/slayniac I was there on Ko Samui and there's a sign on the outside of the glass display which says that geckos have built their nests inside the mummy. Make of that information what you will. |
| /u/sceadwian See, now that's the way I want to go when I die, still productively raising a family. |
| /u/--MobTowN-- At least they can save you 10% on enlightenment. |
| /u/DoYouKnwTheMuffinMan Yea I imagine a good way to avoid frightening small children is to not take them to see a mummified corpse in a glass box. I don't have kids though, so I could be wrong. 🤷♂️ |
| /u/Pleasant-Degree-3662 Depends on the kids ig. My daughter would 10/10 love this 'cool monk'. The fact he's dead will only increase the intrigue |
| /u/BumWink I mean he does look hella more chill with the sunnies, from eldritch horror to a cool cat. |
| /u/mrgonzalez Easy to say when you're looking at the sunglasses |
| /u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit Incidentally, this photo is claimed in a couple of places online to show Luang Pho Daeng when he was alive. That is actually Luang Phor Daeng Ratto, but it's an understandable mistake, because in addition to the similar names, both were from Thailand, both were Buddhist monks, both were mummified and put on public display after they died, and both have sunglasses placed over the empty eye sockets of their corpses. |
| /u/noctalla If had a nickel for every time a Thai Buddhist monk was mummified and put on display after they died with sunglasses over their empty eye sockets... |
| /u/istolethesun12 Hahahahah!! You'd have a dime! |
| /u/noctalla Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. |
| /u/scrumpy33 But it's weird that it happened twice |
| /u/No-Mulberry-8866 No, he'd have two nickels. Dimes are the smaller ones |
| /u/KittyScholar It's wild how a children's cartoon has completely rewritten that phrase. If someone actually ended it with "...I'd be a millionaire!" or "...I could buy a yacht!" I'd be confused |
| /u/_TheLoneRangers Idk the cartoon, I've seen this reference a lot and my brain completes it with the Mitch Hedberg "...I'd be making money in a really weird way" |
| /u/eighteen22 Is it common for Buddhist monks to be mummified and on display? It's it to symbolize their commitment to monkin' ? |
| /u/IneffableOpinion It's rare and most Buddhist sects would frown on it. There are some monks in Japan that did it too, but they were a small group that did not represent the mainstream. Self mummification is a pretty weird process where you are basically committing suicide by starving and poisoning yourself over a long period of time until your body is completely dried out. It's strange that Buddhists monks would do this because 1) Buddha famously invented Buddhism after almost starving himself to death for a religion he had joined. His great awakening moment was the realization that you don't have to suffer and die. He rejected this type of extreme meditation he thought was unhealthy and not getting anyone closer to enlightenment. He founded his new religion to replace the one he thought was ruining people's lives 2) Buddhism also recommends no killing of any kind, which includes suicide. Buddhism says you should show compassion to all living things, including yourself. You are not supposed to intentionally harm self or others. Early Buddhists did not believe in killing animals or people. Over time, the rules relaxed. So you will find warriors that are Buddhist even though they kill people, and Buddhists who eat meat. I guess suicidal monks are another example of rules relaxing over time |
| /u/i_make_orange_rhyme Buddhism also has a concept of "No ego". Id question if "id like my body to be put on display as a tourist attraction" complies with this. |
| /u/screwyoushadowban The mummification part is a regional tradition in a few Mahayana or Tibetan Buddhist places. The display-to-the-whole-public part is an even narrower subset of places, and at least some of the practice is more of a modern thing, whereas in the past the mummification practice was a personal thing and the body would either not be displayed at all or only for the consideration/meditation/reverence of other monks. |
| /u/eighteen22 Interesting, thank you! |
| /u/AkumaLilly Gotta reach enlightenment with style. |
| /u/Solid_Snark Bro is still alive but in a deep meditative state. He's playing the loooooong game. |
| /u/frubano21 https://giphy.com/gifs/Q0MrhO9BUSxKR8RdZC |
| /u/DookieShoez https://giphy.com/gifs/hGB5RMigOfkY0 |
| /u/anon-mally https://i.redd.it/i3syfmjy0y6h1.gif |
| /u/DookieShoez https://giphy.com/gifs/TQqEA08C2u5ag |
| /u/Great_Scott7 https://giphy.com/gifs/J3MC6yc9M7Hx65CjVP |
| /u/muklan Thats....a kind of hell in Buddhism, as I understand it their afterlife has a series of "comfortable" pit falls that a person can get trapped in and wallow away in until they are reincarnated as a lower life form. |
| /u/--Sovereign-- Where's the pit that respawns me as a cat? |
| /u/muklan Bro I said LOWER life form. |
| /u/BluEch0 Animal realm, where according to the vedic interpretation, you're incapable of higher thought and (for some reason this is always highlighted alongside intellect) unable to understand humor. But you might be a lazy cat, you might be a dog in a cage, you might be an ox toiling away with a plow. It's not like you get to choose your next life |
| /u/--Sovereign-- I would love to be a cat incapable of higher thought. it's the pain of higher thought that necessitates humor as a cope, so that's fine |
| /u/Lebabil9 Cats experience humor through play with other cats by surprising them, many mammals and birds, particularly social ones, engage in humor play. |
| /u/BluEch0 I'd argue higher though allows you to channel suffering (including physical suffering, which animals are not immune to) into comedy. Without those, you're just bearing the full brunt of the suffering with no way to cope. |
| /u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins read that as "dog in a cape" because it is 90-100 degrees right now |
| /u/Tuxhorn Not in this case. These monks believe that if they can mummify themselves while alive/on death (which he did), then as they never fully die, they beat the round of rebirth. |
| /u/glitter_witch Apparently he failed to self mummify and had to have assistance in the mummification process by other monks... does that impact the supposed outcome? |
| /u/muklan Looking at your username, I bet you know really well that intent is said to be more important than material success in these kinds of things. |
| /u/glitter_witch It would be my interpretation, but you never know! Some religions get quite strict on process :) |
| /u/Tuxhorn I don't know, i'm not very familiar with the views on this practice. Having read a bit of Buddhism, i'm curious as to how it stays in line with the fact that everything is conditioned, nothing lasts forever. Not the mountains, nor the oceans, and definitely not a mummy. Then again, this is an extremely niche school of thought. |
| /u/muklan Edit; my understanding may not be perfect here, but theres a distinction in being a Bodhissatva, and being locked in a permanent state of meditation. It WOULD skip the in between, and also what youre supposed to learn there, yknow? Its the kind of nothing that death isnt to them. |
| /u/_commenter that's actually what they are trying to achieve. not be in hell but in a meditative state where their consciousness lingers on after death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukdam |
| /u/SavagePassion Somebody needs to put a skateboard in there with him. |
| /u/jeffreyaccount 1973: "deal" 1974: "with" 1975: "it" |
| /u/RejectoPatronum 1999: RETURN THE SLAB |
| /u/TheHolyPangolin https://giphy.com/gifs/3M6LtN8dFX57ZRY2T9 This episode freaked me tf out when I first watched it. Lol |
| /u/RockyJayyy https://giphy.com/gifs/aai6TKhWUcdji |
| /u/idrathernottho_ Yeah I'm sure children are not frightened anymore |
| /u/Alender02 https://preview.redd.it/i6yinzrlgx6h1.jpeg?width=329&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a96ef1085abf1880d5c55261860b1f3d27 f7301 Yeah, not frightening at all. |
| /u/ElSantofisto https://preview.redd.it/vb65igk8ox6h1.jpeg?width=759&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d374814dde9d5624dc0651ba8f37e16434 843d7 |
| /u/Alender02 The guy from the meme template kinda looks like the monk, does he not? |
| /u/MechanicalTurkish He achieved a higher state of consciousness than even enlightenment: enmemement |
| /u/panserbjjorn Excellent use of this meme |
| /u/WiildCard https://giphy.com/gifs/JTzPN5kkobFv7X0zPJ |
| /u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Some sick ass glasses ngl |
| /u/Existing_Resolve_779 Gotta say the man knew how to take care of his teeth |
| /u/zatalak He nose. Or maybe not. |
| /u/Alender02 Yeah, he definitely did |
| /u/GrandmasBoyToy69 https://giphy.com/gifs/1jnyRP4DorCh2 |
| /u/I_Got_Back_Pain https://giphy.com/gifs/ehao5XXKI2xtf4t7IU |
| /u/Bazz07 https://giphy.com/gifs/xoHntNXFYkfzGAftEv |
| /u/CuteCanary https://giphy.com/gifs/d7nKqB3eqrq0IJRjnV |
| /u/DeputyDipshit619 https://preview.redd.it/cm2uvop4jx6h1.jpeg?width=500&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c1176987bef179a649362dfaf259354d06 3cdf7 |
| /u/bryanczarniack Damn, a Scrooged reference? "Adored! Let's be honest, Lew. You paid for the women" |
| /u/ILoveHookers4Real Scrooged is one of my favorite movies!!!! |
| /u/zombiegamer723 Your username is quite relevant for the quote you're replying to lmao. Anyway, yes, great movie. "The bitch hit me with a toaster!" is a favorite in our house lmao. |
| /u/UltimaCaitSith "The fuck are ya lookin at, smoothskin?" |
| /u/Voidlord597 "Ever seen a ghoul before?" |
| /u/Yashema I hear the fighter's guild is recruiting. |
| /u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs https://preview.redd.it/ab6cguwhrx6h1.jpeg?width=523&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35c731e82c391ceb2dac617bd145723048f a5500 Dean Domino lookin' ahh |
| /u/jadewolf42 This was my very first thought, lol. |
| /u/SaddenedSpork Wassa matter smoothskin? Ain't you ever seen a ghoul before? |
| /u/Tjstictches Damn, bro got a sponsor from Ray-ban |
| /u/Can_Haz_Cheezburger https://giphy.com/gifs/aH2QkD5bAuzJuCFlUD |
| /u/SophSimpl https://giphy.com/gifs/LLxwPAjfpLak8 |
| /u/Run_Rabb1t_Run This made me afraid of sunglasses if we're being honest... |
| /u/FCKWPN https://giphy.com/gifs/7aqfZ3mPLLaIo |
| /u/One-Earth9294 https://giphy.com/gifs/wSh94LdNXPVT3cI64J |
| /u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 https://giphy.com/gifs/b59lCHe843R2HyNCkV |
| /u/twatwoffle https://giphy.com/gifs/JhJYK9TnxAbTO |
| /u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ It's ok, honey. He's just meditating. He does appear to have a skin condition but I can assure you he's totally fine. |
| /u/MirandaScribes Are those fucking Meta RayBans?? |
| /u/Alender02 Those are standard Wayfarers. I actually own the same model |
| /u/maniaaintgotshitonme these weekend at Bernie's sequels are getting out of hand |
| /u/Right-Nail-1675 Don't let Donald see this... |
| /u/thefunkst Looks like a pretty cool guy |
| /u/CrazeMase Buddhist monks are allowed material possession like Ray-Bans? Damn. Didn't know they were chill like that |
| /u/Dust-Different Idk Weekend at Bernie's could probably use a reboot. |
| /u/Cityzwnfour Claramente, un cuerpo decrépito y sin tono muscular obviamente todos los niños quieren abrazarlo. |
| /u/BlueLaceSensor128 He's like an inverted Clark Kent. |
| /u/ckypro3 https://giphy.com/gifs/ti4PsREEH1hKuxMlpJ |
| /u/Sketch_Beast https://preview.redd.it/8h71i4bekx6h1.jpeg?width=928&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e471d88eb127d32d2efdef41d713ea5433 74f5c |
| /u/ThrowAway233223 Ya know, this does kind of help illustrate the point with sunglasses. The one with the sunglasses does in fact make me feel more at ease. |
| /u/Pure_Truth82 Weekend at Bernie's 101 |
| /u/shinomori_ This is the image I was looking for |
| /u/witherACE https://i.redd.it/56efuovkby6h1.gif |