Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, also transcribed at Etigelov or Itigelov, (13 May 1852 – 15 June 1927) was a Buryat Buddhist lama and the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
After Itigilov's death in 1927, his body was exhumed and reburied in 1955 and again in 1972, showing an intact body. In 2002, the body was exhumed for a final time, receiving scientific and media attention for its well preserved state. Itigilov's body is currently kept in a glass case in a temple at the Ivolginsky datsan in Buryatia, 23 km from Ulan-Ude, where it has become a place of pilgrimage.
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