Wikipedia's article on sokushinbutsu, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on sokushinbutsu, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview of the practice. NotesWikipedia's article on sokushinbutsu, consulted 2026-08-11, read here for its documentation and study of the tradition only: Ken Jeremiah's 2010 academic monograph, the named temples holding preserved remains today, and Tohoku University's 1961 examination of the monk Bukkai's remains. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication, and its own account of the mummification process itself was not drawn on here, in keeping with the restricted register the practice's tradition, Shingon, carries on this atlas.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
Source Typereference
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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