84000 Glossary of Terms

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འབྱུང་པོས་ཟིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • འབྱུང་པོས་ཟིན།

  • ’byung pos zin
  • bhūtagraha
  • bhūtāveśa
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  • possessed by a spirit
  • འབྱུང་པོས་ཟིན།
  • ’byung pos zin
  • bhūtagraha RS
  • bhūtāveśa RS
Definition in this text:

This is likely an alternate Tibetan translation for the Sanskrit phrase *bhūtagraha, more commonly rendered in Tibetan as ’byung po’i gdon. The phrase shares semantic resonances with the compound bhūta­grahāviṣṭa/’byung po’i gdon gyis non pa and the Sanskrit bhūtāveśa, all of which refer to being possessed by a class of spirit (bhūta/’byung po).