Consuming the Lama Transformations of Tibetan Buddhist Bodies

摘要: Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge idea a singular and bounded form. Buddhists believe that presence lama does not depend on their skin-encapsulated temporal body, lifespan. After death, it is uncommon for to materialize in other appearances become incorporated into others through devotees’ consumption bodily remains. In this article, I discuss how European ingestion holy creates new possibilities embodied intersubjectivity, also practice repositions substance cannibal discourse.