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Bodhisattva's Body in a Pill
The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition
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The first historical study of the medicinal mani pill and its profound spiritual significance in Tibetan religion and cultureThe mani pill is one of the most popular relic traditions in Tibetan Buddhism. Treasured around the globe, mani pills are small edible pellets formed from mixing the powdered bodily remains of buddhas and bodhisattvas with ingredients used in Tibetan medicine and sanctified through a tantric liturgy. Mani pills are today predominantly produced by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, who consecrates and distributes hundreds of thousands annually, but the tradition of producing and consuming mani pills stretches back more than a millennium.Examining the broad cultural history of Buddhist tantra in Tibet through the lens of the mani pill, James Gentry illustrates how these pills have influenced Tibetan conceptions of the body, medicine, healing, collective identity, and shared past; how they have functioned as a point of interaction, contestation, and negotiation between different Buddhist sects and institutions; and how they have created and shaped social bonds and religious identity across Tibet and beyond to the present day.
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