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Phowa[edit]

In the short description of Phowa it says: (expulsion of the spirit from the body).

I would say that "spirit" is not a word that is normaly used within a Buddhist context. It has a strong connotation to "soul" and both terms are very strongly related to Christianity. Buddhism does not have the concept of a soul or spirit, these are seen as to be 'empty' of inherent existence. I would suggest to use the term "mind" instead of "spirit" [R.Sok]

The definition or description of the Phowa is not precise.....[edit]

To my knowledge, Phowa is also the Yoga of the Transference of Consciousness to another living being which means that the physical body is from one person and the consciousness is from another.

Now my argument is that I dear not object to the practice which applies to the persons who don't have blood connections but I will be strongly against it when this happens within a family and is occurred by an ARRANGEMENT, rather than by natural courses, which will throw the family relationship into chaos when one of the family member is realized. Anyone who have this kind of skill know what I mean.

This is perhaps one of the debate topics for Buddhist ethics.

kāma -vs- karma[edit]

I found this love seal information [!?] quite unbearable... and worst :: most references to it on the net seem to trace back here...
>> I really know NO serious Vajarayāna source that calls it kāmamudra,it's always KARMAMUDRA. See par exemple: http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Karmamudra. This name is related to the four transmissions and the four mudrās of the yoga tantra: mahāmudrā, dharmamudrā, samayamudrā and karmamudrā. Hence my edition - wich is a revert. ...Vajrallan (talk) 21:02, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected Gyulu[edit]

Most of the Gyulu article was an irretrievable, unintelligible morass of OR and navel-gazing by one (Thankfuly departed) editor; I've made that article a redirect here. If anything of value can be extracted from the old article's history, it can easily be added to the appropriate section of this article. PlainJain (talk) 23:49, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]