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Bewitchers ('gong po)

A class of malign spirits, headed by Yam-shud dMar-po, who frequent the atmosphere and the earth, and who were bound under an oath of allegiance to Buddhism by Padmasambhava during the eighth century. Nowadays, too, in order to counteract their malign influence, they are ritually exorcised by means of substitute-offferings (glud) and thread-crosses (mdos). On the bewitchers, see Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons of Tibet, pp. 283-285. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)

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-*Eight vehicles — [[theg pa brgyad]], of the [[nine vehicles]] these are the first eight, which depend on [[cause and effect]]. The nine vehicles comprise the three vehicles of the sutras — those of the [[shravakas]], the [[pratyekabuddhas]] and the [[bodhisattvas]] — and the six vehicles of [[Kriya]], [[Upaya]], [[Yoga]], [[Maha Yoga]], [[Anu Yoga]], and [[Ati Yoga]] tantras. They can also be grouped into three vehicles, [[Hinayana]], which includes the first two, [[Mahayana]] the third one, and [[Vajrayana]] the last six. [AJP] from The Great Image ISBN 1-59030-069-6
+Bewitchers ([['gong po]])
+*A class of malign spirits, headed by Yam-shud dMar-po, who frequent the atmosphere and the earth, and who were bound under an oath of allegiance to Buddhism by Padmasambhava during the eighth century. Nowadays, too, in order to counteract their malign influence, they are ritually exorcised by means of substitute-offferings ([[glud]]) and thread-crosses ([[mdos]]). On the bewitchers, see Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons of Tibet, pp. 283-285. [[GD]] (from the Glossary to [[Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings]])
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