- འདྲེ།
- ཤ་ཟ།
- ཤ་ཟར།
- sha za
- sha zar
- ’dre
- piśāca
- piśitāśa
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A class of nonhuman beings that, like several other classes of nonhuman beings, take spontaneous birth. Ranking below rākṣasas, they are less powerful and more akin to pretas. They are said to dwell in impure and perilous places, where they feed on impure things, including flesh. This could account for the name piśāca, which possibly derives from √piś, to carve or chop meat, as reflected also in the Tibetan sha za, “meat eater.” They are often described as having an unpleasant appearance, and at times they appear with animal bodies. Some possess the ability to enter the dead bodies of humans, thereby becoming so-called vetāla, to touch whom is fatal.
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
A class of semidivine beings traditionally associated with the wild, remote places of the earth. They are considered particularly violent and known to devour flesh.
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
A flesh-eating demon, or a demon who can possess the body of a human and cause various illnesses or insanity. They are often depicted as red-eyed, dark-skinned, bulging-eyed creatures, although they seem to be able to assume many shapes.
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
A spirit that haunts the night, feeds on corpses, and is fatal to see. The Tibetan means “flesh eater.” The Sanskrit does not have “eat” as part of the name, but piśa means “flesh.” An alternative etymology is that they are called piśāca because they are yellow in color, from the Sanskrit piśita, meaning “yellow.”
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
A type of malevolent ghost, considered to belong to the preta realm. Tibetan translates the term as “flesh-eaters.”
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
A class of nonhumans said to dwell in impure and perilous places, where they feed on impure things, including flesh.
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
Class of demons; literally “flesh eater.”
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
- piśāca
- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
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- piśāca
- ཤ་ཟ།
- sha za
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- piśāca
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- piśāca
A class of nonhuman beings traditionally associated with the consumption of meat and flesh, alcohol, and other impure or taboo substances, especially when those substances are in the form of refuse, human waste, and carrion. They are said to live in forests, mountains, and other wild places, or near charnel grounds and sites where refuse is deposited, sites that are typically on the margins of society. Piśācas are generally considered threatening, and are closely associated with the transmission of disease.