About the 'pearls'

While I appreciated Nati Baratz's willingness to allow this touching story to unfold with minimal "intervention", I regret that lack of explanation for "sarira".

These are the pearl-like calcifications that the monks discovered amidst the Geshe Lama Konchog's cremated ashes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarira

Many viewers who watched this with little or no knowledge of Buddhist practices were no doubt left befuddled by the funeral scene.