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སྲུལ་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
- pūta
- Term
A class of disease-causing spirits associated with cemeteries and dead bodies. The name probably derives from the Skt. pūta, “foul-smelling,” as reflected also in the Tib. srul po. The smell is variously described in the texts as resembling that of a billy goat or a crow. The morbid condition caused by the spirit shares its name and comes in various forms, with symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, skin eruptions, and festering wounds, the latter possibly explaining the association with bad smells.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
Ugly and foul-smelling spirits, they can be good or cause harm to humans and animals.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
Ugly and foul-smelling spirits, they can be good or cause harm to humans and animals.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
A spirit that is said to cause physical illnesses.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
A class of disease-causing spirits associated with cemeteries and dead bodies.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
Class of pretas that cause rotting or that have rotting corpses; literally “the rotting one.”
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
A class of demons.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
Ugly and foul-smelling spirits, they can be good or cause harm to humans and animals.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
A class of spirits similar to vetālas.
- pūtana
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūtana
A class of nonhuman beings specifically associated with illness and danger to children.
- pūta
- སྲུལ་པོ།
- srul po
- pūta
A class of spirits that seems to be identical with the pūtanas.