Vampires?
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Vampires?
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Re: Vampires?
Most historians, I believe, posit that western vampire lore manifested from observations of a particular kind (or multiple different kinds) of disease/infection that simulates some of the mythic symptoms.
There are "Chinese vampires", but this is just a weird English translation for the folklore entity described, which is far closer to being like a western revenant than a western vampire. In general, Asia does have its fair share of "undead" creatures in its various folklores, but nothing that really resembles western vampires by any stretch of imagination, and I don't think that the undead--assuming for the moment these things might actually exist in some form--actually qualify as sentient beings in samsara. Most of the creatures I'm aware of are more like automated re-animations of bodies, typically under the control of a sorcerer/witch doctor/whatever you wanna call it.
There are "Chinese vampires", but this is just a weird English translation for the folklore entity described, which is far closer to being like a western revenant than a western vampire. In general, Asia does have its fair share of "undead" creatures in its various folklores, but nothing that really resembles western vampires by any stretch of imagination, and I don't think that the undead--assuming for the moment these things might actually exist in some form--actually qualify as sentient beings in samsara. Most of the creatures I'm aware of are more like automated re-animations of bodies, typically under the control of a sorcerer/witch doctor/whatever you wanna call it.
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Re: Vampires?
take a look:
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro-langs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakshasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi
http://vampireunderworld.com/asian-vamp ... -vampires/
http://kalpa-bon.com/index.php/performa ... n-kag-2010
http://kalpa-bon.com/index.php/texts/sri
https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro-langs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakshasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi
http://vampireunderworld.com/asian-vamp ... -vampires/
http://kalpa-bon.com/index.php/performa ... n-kag-2010
http://kalpa-bon.com/index.php/texts/sri