Tulpa

Tulpa
Status	Alive
Created by	Sino
Known Members	Orange White Green
Distiction	Created beings of various appearances, serving distinctive purposes.

Tulpas are a type of magical beings, created by wizards.

Role

Tulpas are made to serve their masters. The series features three:

• Orange: meant to manage the The Realm of Shades should the Bloodwolf return.
• Green: meant to bring Sino back in the event of an emergency.
• White: the most important one, she was made to protect the Arcanum.

Destiny

Initially it is linked to roles set by Sino, who will live in the The Realm of Shades after fulfilling their purpose. One: White, is special, as she is her own being with her own destiny to fulfil, independent of her duty.

Appearance

White's appearance adds armor that is Roman Gladiator-esque style. The outfit consists of brown leather and brown boots reaching up to her knees and a bronze helmet.

Abilities

When transformed into a fully manifested Tulpa, their hosts gain superior strength, speed and agility, heightening their abilities above what they were before.

White can blast magic beams from her sword which can kill someone.

Real Life

Tulpa is a concept in mysticism and the paranormal of a being or object which is created through spiritual or mental powers. It was adapted by 20th c-ntury theosophists from Tibetan sprul-pa (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་པ་, Wylie: sprulpa) which means "emanation" or "manifestation". Modern practitioners use the term to refer to a type of willed imaginary friend which practitioners consider to be sentient and relatively autonomous.

Indian Buddhism

One early Buddhist text, the Samaññaphala Sutta, lists the ability to create a “mind-made body” (manomāyakāya) as one of the "fruits of the contemplative life". Commentarial texts such as the Patisambhidamagga and the Visuddhimagga state that this mind-made body is how Gautama Buddha and arhats are able to travel into heavenly realms using the continuum of the mindstream (citta-santāna) and it is also used to explain the multiplication miracle of the Buddha as illustrated in the Divyavadana, in which the Buddha multiplied his emanation body ("nirmita") into countless other bodies which filled the sky. A Buddha or other realized being is able to project many such "nirmitas" simultaneously in an infinite variety of forms in different realms simultaneously.

The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fl. 4th to 5th century CE) defined nirmita as a siddhi or psychic power (Pali: iddhi, Skt: ṛddhi) developed through Buddhist discipline, concentrated discipline (samadhi) and wisdom in his seminal work on Buddhist philosophy, the Abhidharmakośa. Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi defines nirmāṇa as a magical illusion and "basically, something without a material basis".^[4]:130 The Madhyamaka school of philosophy sees all reality as empty of essence; all reality is seen as a form of nirmita or magical illusion.

Tibetan Buddhism

Emanation bodies—nirmanakaya, sprulsku, sprul-pa and so on—are connected to trikaya, the Buddhist doctrine of the three bodies of the Buddha. They are usually emanation bodies of celestial beings, though "unrealized beings" such as humans may have their own emanation bodies or even be emanation bodies. For example, the 14th Dalai Lama is considered by some followers to be an emanation-reincarnation or tulku of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. The 14th Dalai Lama mentioned in a public statement that his successor might appear via emanation while the current Dalai Lama is still alive.

Tulpas in Western Society

The concept of tulpa was popularized and secularized in the Western world through fiction, gaining popularity on television in the late 1990s and 2000s. In 2009, anonymous posters on the discussion board 4chan started experimenting with creating tulpas, and the community gained popularity through the emergence of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom. The fans attempted to use meditation and lucid dreaming techniques to create imaginary friends. Surveys by Veissière explored this community's demographic, social, and psychological profiles. These individuals, calling themselves "tulpamancers," treat the tulpas as a "real or somewhat-real person." The number of active participants in these online communities is in the low hundreds, and few meetings in person have taken place. They belong to "primarily urban, middle class, Euro-American adolescent and young adult demographics" and they "cite loneliness and social anxiety as an incentive to pick up the practice." 93.7% of respondents expressed that their involvement with the creation of tulpas has "made their condition better," and led to new unusual sensory experiences. Some practitioners have sexual and romantic interactions with their tulpas, though the practice is controversial and trending towards taboo. One survey found that 8.5% support a metaphysical explanation of tulpas, 76.5% support a neurological or psychological explanation, and 14% "other" explanations.

Trivia

• It is unknown if there are other Tulpas in existing in the series, created by Sino or a different mage, for example, Hecate the Brownish.
  • It is very probable that Tulpas are made by other mages, seeing as Duchess recognized one.
• Tulpas actually exist as religious beliefs, but not much is known about them in the real world.

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