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སྲིན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
སྲིན་པོ།
srin po
rākṣasa
- Term
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. They are often depicted as flesh-eating monsters who haunt frightening places and are ugly and evil-natured with a yearning for human flesh, and who additionally have miraculous powers, such as being able to change their appearance.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of flesh-eating demons.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings who are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of semidivine beings who are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. Some are flesh-eating demons who haunt frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. Some are flesh-eating demons who haunt frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A race of ugly, evil-natured, supernatural beings with a yearning for human flesh.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of semi-divine beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A race of physical beings who are ugly, evil-natured, and have a yearning for human flesh, but who also have miraculous powers, such as being able to change their appearance, as in the Kāraṇḍavyūha.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A race of ugly, evil-natured supernatural beings with a yearning for human flesh.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A demon; a class of demons.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of semidivine beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. Some are flesh-eating demons that haunt frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of flesh-eating demons that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of semi-divine beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. Some are flesh-eating demons who haunt frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A general term in Indian culture for a type of spirit that (inter alia) haunts cemeteries and eats human flesh.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A flesh-eating demon that haunts frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. They are often depicted as flesh-eating monsters who haunt frightening places and are ugly and evil-natured with a yearning for human flesh, and who additionally have miraculous powers, such as being able to change their appearance.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. They are often depicted as flesh-eating monsters who haunt frightening places and are ugly and evil-natured.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered harmful and demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of terrestrial demons perhaps similar to ogres.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. Some are flesh-eating demons who haunt frightening places.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of demons.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of demonic spirit being.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of demonic spirit beings.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- rakṣas
A class of demons.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- rākṣasī
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition, sometimes depicted as flesh-eating demons who haunt frightening places.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A race of ugly, evil-natured supernatural beings with a yearning for human flesh.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A race of ugly, evil-natured supernatural beings with a yearning for human flesh.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of demons.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered harmful and demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of flesh-eating demons that haunt frightening places.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition.
- Rākṣasa
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa
- Flesh-eating demon
- སྲིན་པོ།
- srin po
- rākṣasa