Tracking the Tulpa : Exploring the "Tibetan" origins of a contemporary paranormal idea

Nova Religio

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-97

  Mikles, Natasha L ^a   Laycock, Joseph P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Orientalism; Theosophy; Thought forms; Tibet; Tulpa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945303206     PISSN: 10926690     EISSN: 15418480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.87     Document Type: Review

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