Learn to Help Free the Spirit of a Recently Deceased Person
In the hills of Tibet just outside of the city of Gangtok, if one is lucky, one may stumble upon Tibetan Buddhist trapas (students) practicing the rite of freeing the spirit from the body of a recently deceased person. The process is simple. While in meditation, a trapas will, without warning and with great effort, cry out the word hik! with a shrill. This will happen periodically for quite a long time. At some point, after having cried out several times, the trapas will begin to show signs of... Sign in to see full entry.