bhuta shuddhi
भूतशुद्धि bhūtaśuddhiPurification of the elements: a preparatory tantric rite in which the worshipper symbolically dissolves the body into its five elements and rebuilds it as a fit vessel, so that only the divine remains to worship the divine.
Explained in depth in Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to AshWhere this term appears
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The rite that makes this possible is bhuta-shuddhi , the "purification of the elements." The practitioner mentally dissolves the ordinary body, unwinding the five gross elements in reverse of the order that mad…
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
… to its causal source and rebuilds it in the goddess’s specification. Bhuta Shuddhi - the purification of the elements .
- The Manuals Treatise
…ta worship in its full Saubhagya-Kadi operational form, including the Bhuta Shuddhi (purification of the elements), the 64 ritual upacaras (offerings), the worship of the fifteen Nityas - with their mantras giv…
- Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise
The external offerings and the internal Bhuta Shuddhi (the purification of the five elements within the body) are the same offering.