abhisheka
अभिषेक abhishekaThe ritual bathing or anointing of a murti or a person with water, milk and other substances; the act of consecration in puja and in diksha.
Where this term appears
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
There is abhisheka , the ritual bathing of the image in water, milk, and other substances.
- What is Puja? Worship
Achamana , water to sip, a purification. Snana , the bath, often poured over the image as abhisheka .
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
In Vajrayana Buddhism , samaya , Tibetan dam tshig , is the vow taken at abhisheka , the empowerment.
- The Lingam Explained Deities
The central act is abhisheka , the continuous bathing of the stone, water and milk and honey and curd poured over it in a slow stream, the offering running down into the channel of the base and out.
- The Contemporary Scholar-Practitioner Treatise
He didn't give the abhisheka , he didn't create a successor, but he did give a transmission to Mark Dyczkowski, Bettina Baumer, Rameshwar Jha and others." The chair Sthaneshwar Timalsina took a master's degree …