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>There is a type of beings in Tibetan Buddhism that can result in loss of >spirit or "lha", but this is sensitive probably not to be talked about, and >maybe not within the parameters of your study. If interested you should >talk to a lama. They might well not like talking about it. There's a discussion of lha, as possessing shamanic spirits rather than a soul that can be lost, in Takako Yamada's AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANIMISM AND SHAMANISM. Does this deal with something else entirely? Thanks, Dan Harms Coordinator of Instruction Librarian SUNY Cortland Memorial Library P.O. Box 2000 Cortland NY, 13045 (607) 753-4042