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'''Chilu''' ([[Wyl.]] ''<nowiki>'chi bslu</nowiki>''), "ransoming from impending death". ''Chilus'' are the main type of practices performed in the [[Sakya]] tradition when a practitioner seems to near the time of death because the [[dakini]]s are calling him or her back. With this practice we make offering to the dakinis as a ''ransom'' as a means to lengthen the life of the practitioner. They are similar to [[sundok]] practices. | '''Chilu''' ([[Wyl.]] ''<nowiki>'chi bslu</nowiki>''), "ransoming from impending death". ''Chilus'' are the main type of practices performed in the [[Sakya]] tradition when a practitioner seems to near the time of death because the [[dakini]]s are calling him or her back. With this practice we make offering to the dakinis as a ''ransom'' as a means to lengthen the life of the practitioner. They are similar to [[sundok]] practices. | ||
==Further Reading== | |||
*Mengele, Irmgard. "Chilu ('Chi bslu): Rituals for "Deceiving Death" in José Ignacio Cabezón (ed.), ''Tibetan Ritual'', Oxford University Press, 2010 | |||
Revision as of 13:56, 30 November 2011
Chilu (Wyl. 'chi bslu), "ransoming from impending death". Chilus are the main type of practices performed in the Sakya tradition when a practitioner seems to near the time of death because the dakinis are calling him or her back. With this practice we make offering to the dakinis as a ransom as a means to lengthen the life of the practitioner. They are similar to sundok practices.
Further Reading
- Mengele, Irmgard. "Chilu ('Chi bslu): Rituals for "Deceiving Death" in José Ignacio Cabezón (ed.), Tibetan Ritual, Oxford University Press, 2010