The Bodhisattva's Body in a Pill
The Material and Spiritual History of a Buddhist Relic Tradition
Series: Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Virginia Press
- Date of Publication 8 July 2026
- ISBN 9780813954653
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9780813954646
- No. of pages402 pages
- Size 235x156x25 mm
- Weight 571 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 b&w illustrations 700
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The first historical study of the medicinal mani pill and its profound spiritual significance in Tibetan religion and culture
The maṇi pill is one of the most popular relic traditions in Tibetan Buddhism. Treasured around the globe, maṇi 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. Maṇi 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 maṇi pills stretches back more than a millennium.
Examining the broad cultural history of Buddhist tantra in Tibet through the lens of the maṇi pill, James Duncan 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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