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    various tantric rituals as part of a sādhanā, or spiritual practice. The ganachakra often comprises a sacramental meal and festivities such as dancing, spirit...
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    consumption and use of the Five Ms, often in the context of ritual feasts (ganachakra), along with other ritual elements such as incense, music, and costumes...
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    Shivanasamudra Falls is a cluster of waterfalls on the borders of Malavalli, Mandya and Kollegala, Chamarajanagara, in Karnataka, India, situated along...
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  • Anandabhuvana-yoga and others referred to later. "Chakrapuja" is cognate with Ganachakra or Ganachakrapuja. Tattvas are the 96 qualities or properties of the human...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gana (Indian religions). Gaṇasaṅgha Ganachakra Ganatantra Ganesha Genos Bhoota Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0-500-51088-1)...
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  • in the northern hemisphere and November 1 in the southern hemisphere. Ganachakra Hieros gamos Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass Sexual ritual Yab-Yum Wagar, Samuel...
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    fierce Hariti or Ajima to local Newari Buddhists. Her shrine and the Ganachakra offerings there are the responsibility of the Mahaguru Gompa, which faces...
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  • of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bacchanalia". Anthesteria Ganachakra Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus Saturnalia, a Roman festivity...
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    averting danger (santih) and the ability to harm enemies (abhicarah). Ganachakras, ritual feasts, would sometimes be held in cemeteries and cremation grounds...
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    Mystery of living and dying, the rite of Ganachakra is celebrated, indeed all forms participate in the Ganachakra, there is nothing in the Three Worlds (Triloka)...
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  • In saṃbhogakāya attained through visualization, the sādhaka offers a gaṇachakra of their own physical body to the "four" guests: the Three Jewels, dakinis...
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    selected. Athenian festivals Attic Calendar Dionysia and Bacchanalia Ganachakra Lenaia Rosalia and Feast of the Lemures All Souls' Night, Day of the Dead...
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    teacher Diksha or Abhiseka: Initiation ritual which may include shaktipat Ganachakra: A ritual feast during which a sacramental meal is offered Guru yoga and...
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  • to whom this kind of offering may be of benefit, in a feast called the ganachakra. This sādhanā (practice) is common to another denizen of the charnel ground...
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    practitioners both drink alcohol and eat meat. Many traditions of the Ganachakra which is a type of Panchamakara puja prescribed the offering and ingestion...
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    consumed at the beginning of all important rituals such as the abhisheka, ganachakra, and homa. In the Tibetan tradition, dütsi is made during drubchens –...
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    Dharmic religions Form constant – Recurringly observed geometric pattern Ganachakra – Tantric assemblies or feasts Great chain of being – Cosmological hierarchy...
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    prayer festivals, protection rituals, death rituals, tantric feasts (ganachakra), tantric initiations (abhiseka) and the goma fire ritual (common in East...
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    Bhavacakra Bhoot (ghost) Bon Festival Buddhist cosmology Chöd Edimmu Ganachakra Ghost Festival Ghoul Hungry ghost Jiangshi Jikininki Kanjirottu Yakshi...
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    with Kapala in hand Tibetan Rakta Ganapathi with Kapala in hand Chöd Ganachakra Sahasrara James G. Lochtefeld (2001). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of...
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    blessed remains of food, etc., offered to the pretas in rites such as Ganachakra. [citation needed] In Mahayana Buddhism Chenrezig offers the hungry ghosts...
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    yogas: Inner heat Luminosity yoga Dream yoga Death yoga Sex yoga Festivals Ganachakra Ullambana Puja Tantric texts Anuttarayoga Tantra Cakrasaṃvara Tantra Guhyagarbha...
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    calendar to calculate it. Athenian festivals Anthesteria Bacchanalia Ganachakra Lenaia Panathenaia Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]. Longman Pronunciation...
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    yogas: Inner heat Luminosity yoga Dream yoga Death yoga Sex yoga Festivals Ganachakra Ullambana Puja Tantric texts Anuttarayoga Tantra Cakrasaṃvara Tantra Guhyagarbha...
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