Self-mummification III: A Japanese Abelard and Heloise–Japanese History - a podcast by B. T. Newberg and history nerd friends

To conclude our series, here's a a self-mummified monk whose bawdy tale could be called a Japanese Abelard and Heloise (i.e. the story Romeo and Juliet was based on, but with more genital mutilation). We also hear how self-mummification died, and even about a 20th-century self-mummified monk.

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