Śāntika

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śāntika [alt. śānticāra, śāntikarma] (T. zhi ba'i las; C. xizai 息災). "Pacifying activities”. One of the four types of activities (caturkarman) set forth in the Buddhist tantras.[1]

"Pacifying activities involve those rituals that purify baleful influences that appear in such forms as hindrances and illness."[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. śāntika
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