RG ST 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ayurveda, Sesame Oil, Virabhadra
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Hostile takeover of living person by demon or spirit being. Symptoms: nightmares, insomnia, disease, madness, miscarriage, death virabhadra: one of the possessing gods; can control spirit beings. More like dire chinese p"o souls than buddhist petas. Attack living if not cared for feared pretas, bhutas, and bhuta-nathas. Most spirit beings called pretas, bhutas, or bhu-pret. Worship of a bhuta-natha, a lord of spirit beings named virabhadra, bhairava bhairava amulet: protects one from demons strategies for dealing with demons. Combating, exorcising through bhutanatha (=stick) churel: spirit of a woman who died in childbirth. Buddhist sutts pitaka legends of demoness hariti. E. g. 9th c. netra tantra how people are possessed. Natural weakness (of children, pregnant women) techniques for combating spirit beings. Images fed by devotees with sesame oil, red paste, coatings of foil, called malipana creation of white and black bhairava. Created from shakiti (dive energy) and mail (filth) rubbed from bodies of great gods.
