Case file · Apparition / miracle
Khenpo A Chö's 'rainbow body'
After the monk Khenpo A Chö died at his hermitage near Nyarong in Kham in August 1998, disciples reported rainbows, lights and music, and said his body shrank and vanished within a week.
1998 CE · 30.94, 100.31 · status: claim
The account
In Dzogchen teaching a realised master's body may dissolve into light at death, leaving only hair and nails. The Catholic priest Francis Tiso travelled to Kham to interview witnesses and published Rainbow Body and Resurrection in 2016.
The sceptical view
No independent observer saw the body or its disappearance; the evidence is testimony from devoted disciples, and even the year is sometimes given as 1999.