[INDOLOGY] Eating flesh of a jogi, a magician, a healer

[Matthew Kapstein]

Tibetan sources, no doubt drawing on something in one Buddhist tantra or another,
speak of consuming the flesh of one "born seven times a brahman." A particularly
good example is found in the hagiography of the 14th century mystic O-rgyan-gling-pa,
and in his well-known revelation, the Padma-bka'-thang. (For the hagiography,
one may refer to Dudjom Rinpoche, The Fundamentals and History of the Nyingma School.)

I have not traced out the Indian background for this motif. But some relevant elements have
been explored in Jacob Dalton's The Taming of the Demons.

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
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