Would somebody who is knowledgeable in Buddhism please verify what I recall having read?

I once read that in the religion of Buddhism is a belief or a teaching that a person or being who exists in the imagination can be made to materialize and become real. Is this statement true? I do not recall the exact source of the information or whether it was online or in print.|||This is most often done in Tibetan Buddhism ( see the writings of Alexandra David-Neel) as a demonstration of the provisional nature of our own existence, but it sometimes happens in other groups. At Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco, someone was doing the practice of visualizing Kwan Yin so well that other people saw her walking around the halls.|||that is not something of which i have studied.|||I've never heard of that from Buddhism.





I have heard of that from the practices of ceremonial magic. It's called a thought-form, and there are specific rituals from ceremonial magic that are supposed to cause that to happen. Crowley wrote about it, Regardie mentioned it, and Kraig hinted at it. But it doesn't occur in any Buddhist canonical text that I'm aware of.|||In Buddhism the entire physical universe is "Maya", an illusion. Nothing about it is 'real' in a spiritual sense. So, probably those somewhat farther along on that path towards Buddha-consciousness could manipulate the illusions seen. However doing that would be a distraction from the path of enlightenment.|||Don't know much about history,


don't know much biology.


Don't know much about a science book,


don't know much about the french I took.


but what I do know . . . . . .





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