Finished trophy dragon #trophydragon #uncoollikeyou #hefe (Taken with Instagram)
I’ve done too many cancer ribbons lately. Glad to give people a good memorial though (Taken with Instagram)
Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist ritualistic self-mummification
For 1,000 days (a little less than three years) the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another thousand days and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. This caused vomiting and a rapid loss of bodily fluids, and most importantly, it made the body too poisonous to be eaten by maggots. Finally, a self-mummifying monk would lock himself in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, where he would not move from the lotus position. His only connection to the outside world was an air tube and a bell. Each day he rang a bell to let those outside know that he was still alive.
(Source: cpelech, via yourealwaysonthetipofmytongue)
So happy with this finished piece #tattoos (Taken with Instagram)