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Reflections on rasāyana, bcud len and related practices in Nyingma (rnying ma) tantric ritual
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The Tibetan term, bcud len, "imbibing the essence juice", is an equivalent for Sanskrit, rasāyana, but in Tibetan Buddhist ritual manuals, both terms occur, apparently with slightly different connotations. Practices classified as bcud len are frequently relatively short, and seem primarily designed for the use of individual yogis, usually as a subsidiary practice to complement their main tantric meditation. The production of bcud len pills which are said to sustain, rejuvenate and extend th...
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg in the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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- Publisher:
- University of Alberta Libraries Publisher's website
- Journal:
- History of Science in South Asia Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 181-203
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-14
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- ISSN:
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2369-775X
- Source identifiers:
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827976
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- 2018-03-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Catherine Cantwe
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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- CC Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
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