ポア

Japanese

Alternative forms

• ポワ (powa) (formal transcription of Tibetan འཕོ་བ ('pho ba) used in scholarly discussion of the original term)

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan འཕོ་བ ('pho ba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [po̞a̠]

Noun

ポア • (poa) 

1. phowa, a Tibetan Buddhist term appropriated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult to refer to killing someone to save them from bad karma