tulpa

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
    — When the year was up, the tulpa began growing. It lost its fear of its master and began taking on new forms of its own. It ceased to run errands ....
  2. A type of thought-form regarded as capable of independent action, with a persistent personality and identity; a kind of modern imaginary friend.

词形变化

tulpa plural tulpas plural tulpae often,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
tulpamancer tulpamancy

词源

Borrowed from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་པ (sprul pa, “emanation, magical creation”), equivalent to a calque of Sanskrit निर्मित (nirmita, “build”) or निर्माण (nirmāṇa, “build”).
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