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རོ་ལངས། | Glossary of Terms
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རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
- vetāḍa
- vaitaḍa
- Term
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of powerful beings that typically haunt charnel grounds and are most often depicted entering into and animating corpses. Hence, the Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A spirit that in particular haunts charnel grounds and can be used in sorcery to harm others. It can also possess and animate a corpse at will (which will then cease to deteriorate).
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A harmful spirit who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A spirit that can inhabit and animate dead bodies, a zombie spirit. Hence, the Tibetan means “risen corpse,” although in the context of the Kāraṇḍavyūha it refers to a disembodied spirit.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A kind of demon or evil spirit occupying a dead body; a zombie.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of spirits that haunt charnel grounds.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A harmful spirit that haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of spirit beings typically associated with violent sorcery rites, the vetāla is most often described as a reanimated corpse or zombie.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of spirit beings typically associated with violent sorcery rites, the vetāla is most often described as a reanimated corpse or zombie.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of powerful beings that typically haunt charnel grounds and enter into and animate corpses. Hence, the Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
- vetāḍa
A class of powerful beings that typically haunt charnel grounds and enter into and animate corpses. Hence, the Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of supernatural being who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them. The Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vaitaḍa
- vetāla
A class of supernatural being who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them. The Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vaitaḍa
- vetāla
A class of supernatural being who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them. The Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāḍa
- vetāla
A harmful spirit who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them. The Tibetan translation means “risen corpse.”
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of spirits that frequent charnel grounds and sometimes take possession of dead bodies.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
Zombie; a class of spirits who enter and revive corpses.
- vetāla
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāla
A class of beings that typically haunt charnel grounds and are most often depicted as entering into and animating corpses. A vetāla can be ritually induced to enter a corpse and then serve the ritualist in a variety of capacities.
- vetāḍa
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāḍa
- vetāla
A class of demons inhabiting charnel grounds.
- vetāḍa
- རོ་ལངས།
- ro langs
- vetāḍa
The term vetāḍa is a variant of vetāla, or ro langs in Tibetan. A class of being that occupies and animates the body of a corpse (Monier-Williams).