Tulpa: Difference between revisions

One early Buddhist text, the ''Samaññaphala Sutta'' lists the ability to create a “mind-made body” (manomāyakāya) as one of the "fruits of the contemplative life".<ref name="Fiordalis">{{cite web|last1=Fiordallis|first1=David|title=Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/61721/dvf_1.pdf|publisher=University of Michigan|accessdate=22 April 2017|date=20 September 2008|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423064934/https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/61721/dvf_1.pdf|archivedate=23 April 2017|df=}}</ref>{{rp|117}} The Tibetan use of the tulpa concept was to have students practice the formation of a mind-made body which would manifest a genuine deity. While the students were told that the tulpa they created was a deity, they were expected to come to the conclusion that "even the most powerful deities were no more than creations of the humanmind". The pupil who accepted the tulpa instead "was deemed a failure – and set off to spend the rest of his life in an uncomfortable hallucination."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1954809W/Magical_Use_Of_Thought_Forms|title=Magical Use Of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment|last=Ashcroft-Nowicki|first=Dolores|date=2001-12-01|publisher=Llewellyn Publications|isbn=9781567180848}}</ref>{{rp|117}}