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A class of spirits that haunt charnel grounds.

A harmful spirit who haunts charnel grounds and can take possession of corpses and reanimate them.

A kind of demon or evil spirit occupying a dead body; a zombie.

A spirit that can inhabit and animate dead bodies, a zombie spirit. Hence, the Tibetan means "risen corpse," although in the context of the Kāraṇḍavyūha it refers to a disembodied spirit.

The term vetāḍa is a variant of vetāla, or {ro langs} in Tibetan. A class of being that occupies and animates the body of a corpse (Monier-Williams).

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