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-Lifelong Companion Gods ([['go ba'i lha]])
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-*A category of spirits who protect the life-essence ([[bla]]) of an individual, accompanying the individual in question for the duration of his or her life, in the manner in which a shadow follows the body. Five types of life-long companion god ([['go ba'I lha lnga]]) are specifically identified: the gods of vitality ([[srog gi lha]]), the gods of masculinity ([[pho lha]]), the gods of femininity ([[mo lha]]), the gods of the countryside ([[yul lha]]), and the gods of inimical force ([[dgra lha]]). On these and other enumerations, see Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons of Tibet, pp. 327-8. [[GD]] (from the Glossary to [[Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings]])
-[[Category:Astrology and Divination]]