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སྦྱིན་སྲེག | Glossary of Terms
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སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
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- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
Traditional ritual worship involving a sacrificial fire into which oblations are offered.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
An oblation offered into a ritual fire; the repeated act of casting an offering into the fire, where each throw is accompanied by a single repetition of the mantra.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
A fire sacrifice where the practitioner offers an oblation a specified number of times; when this term refers to an individual oblation, it has been translated as “oblation.”
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
Ritual oblation offered into the fire. Unlike bali, homa in a tantric ritual is a repetitive act performed a prescribed number of times.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
The casting of a prescribed offering into a ritual fire. The practice of homa is first attested in pre-Buddhist Vedic literature and serves as a core, pervasive ritual paradigm in exoteric and esoteric rites in both Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions into modern times. In Buddhist esoteric rites, the ritual offerings are made repeatedly, with each throw accompanied by a single repetition of the respective mantra.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
The casting of a prescribed offering into a ritual fire. The practice of homa is first attested in pre-Buddhist Vedic literature and serves as a core, pervasive ritual paradigm in exoteric and esoteric rites in both Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions into modern times. In Buddhist esoteric rites, the ritual offerings are made repeatedly, with each throw accompanied by a single repetition of the respective mantra.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
A type of fire sacrifice where each casting of the offered article into the fire is accompanied by a single repetition of the mantra.
- homa
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
The casting of a prescribed offering into a ritual fire. The practice of homa is first attested in pre-Buddhist Vedic literature, and serves as a core, pervasive ritual paradigm in exoteric and esoteric rites in both Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions into modern times. In Buddhist esoteric rites, the ritual offerings are made repeatedly, with each offering accompanied by a single repetition of the respective mantra.
- oblation
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
- oblation
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
See “homa.”
- oblation
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
An oblation offered into the fire a prescribed number of times.
- burnt offering
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
Fire ritual.
- fire offering
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
This refers to a form of ritual that dates back to the early Vedic period of Indian civilization, involving the offering of substances into fire.
- fire pūjā
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
- homa
The casting of a prescribed offering into a ritual fire. The practice of homa is first attested in pre-Buddhist Vedic literature and serves as a core, pervasive ritual paradigm in exoteric and esoteric rites in both Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions into modern times. In Buddhist esoteric rites, the ritual offerings are made repeatedly, with each throw accompanied by a single repetition of the respective mantra.
- fire sacrifice
- སྦྱིན་སྲེག
- sbyin sreg
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In “The Chapter on Going Forth,” this is presumably a reference to Vedic sacrifices, which brahmins offered to, and hence burned in, a sacred fire.