It shares linguistic roots with the work trülku ( sprul sku), which is the Tibetan word for a reincarnated title-holder like the Dalai Lama or Panchen Lama. “Tulpa” is a nominalized form of the Tibetan verb sprul, roughly pronounce “trül.” Sprul means to emanate or to manifest, so a “ sprul – pa” is someone who has emanated or manifested. In fact, the term owes much more of its existence to advanced philosophical ideas about the ontology of buddhas and other divine figures than it does to any occult practice. As a scholar of Tibetan religious culture who’s lived among and talked with various Tibetan communities for the past decade, I never once heard an individual - Buddhist or otherwise - claim to have produced a tulpa.
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