The Body and Blood of Christ

In Catholicism and many various groups of Christians, the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ is symbolic in the way wafers and grape juice or wine become symbolically tranformed or transmuted into the literal body and blood of Christ when you take the Sacrament of Wafers dipped in grape juice or wine.

In Tibetan Buddhism it is similar in my experience when I traveled to India and Nepal. I might be very remote at a Gompa with a High Lama and he might give me scented ashes of another high lama to eat in the form of little things that look like pills sort of.

This is the Tibetan Buddhist equivalence of the body and blood of Christ where you take into your body and become literally of "one taste" with a Saint with infinite Dharma. And you can feel the difference in your life just like you can feel the difference when you take the transmuted Wafer and grape juice or wine into your body.

Also, I didn't understand this while I was in India and Nepal but often when a really High Lama passes away they cover him with wax looking like he did in a meditative pose when he was alive. The people there in the Gonpa or Temple know this is a wax covered saint that looks exactly like him covering his body whose soul has passed over. But, I didn't realize it until I was back in the U.S. for a year or more reading a book that spoke about this.

So, the traditions of Catholicism in this sense have a resemblance to Tibetan Buddhism regarding the Body and Blood of Christ and in Tibetan Buddhism it would be the ingestion of the ashes (like little pills you eat) to take on the full enlightenment of the High Tibetan Lamas who have passed away.

Also, in Catholicism bones of the Saints of the church are often put into wooden alters at the front of the church to sanctify these churches with the bones of the Saints.

This is also done in Tibetan Buddhism by covering really highly attained Tibetan Lamas with Wax in meditative poses for a year or more in Gonpas (Temples) all over India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan and other Tibetan Buddhist places in Asia.

So, in both Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism you are literally eating the sacred in these forms and for the devout their lives become miracles more and more every single day from then on.

By God's Grace

Also, 25% of Tibetan Buddhists believe in God like I do. I see myself as a mystical Christian Tibetan Buddhist since around 1980 now.

My experience of all this every day is the Infinite Grace of God through all of this.