bhuta
भूत bhūtaA spirit or ghost (the word also means 'that which has become', a being or element). Shiva presides over the bhutas as Bhutanatha, 'lord of spirits'; in coastal Karnataka they are honoured in the living bhuta kola worship.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
The rite is called bhuta shuddhi , and its logic is stated as a flat, uncompromising rule.
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
Most accounts give four: earth, water, fire, and air, the bhutas you can see, touch, and test.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It listed twenty-eight Siddhanta tantras, twenty-eight Garuda tantras, twenty Bhuta tantras, twenty-four Dakshina and twenty-four Vama tantras, and sixty-four of what it called the circle of Sadashiva.
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
…ast and most concrete of them are the five great elements, the pancha bhuta : prithvi (earth), ap (water), agni (fire), vayu (air), and akasha (ether, or space).
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
…ddhānta, the removal of poisons to the Gāruḍa stream, exorcism to the Bhūta, the destruction of enemies to the Bhairava, and to the Vāma stream sarvavaśīkaraṇa , the subjection of everything to one's will.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
It opens: Vishvam Vishnur Vashatkaro bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh.
- 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…
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
bhuta pisacha nikata nahi avai, mahabira jaba nama sunavai : No ghost or goblin comes near, when the name of the great hero is spoken.