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 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.
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
…rms at verse 1.13.10, where holy persons are themselves called tirtha-bhuta , "beings who are tirthas ." Such people, the verse says, "make the tirthas into tirthas ," because they carry the Lord within them.