Sanni Yakuma / Tovil healing traditions
Buddhist Traditions Practice / discipline
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Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Sanni Yakuma / Tovil healing traditions is cataloged as a Practice / discipline within Buddhist Traditions. Its candidate country context is “Sri Lanka” and its period or origin is “Precolonial roots; documented in early modern and modern periods.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Sri Lankan Buddhist vernacular ritual and healing traditions.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Sanni Yakuma / Tovil healing traditions; Sanni Yakkuma; tovil; devil-dance healing ritual
- Parent tradition
- Sri Lankan Buddhist vernacular ritual and healing traditions
- Public geographic context
- Sri Lanka
- Period / origin
- Precolonial roots; documented in early modern and modern periods
- Living / historical status
- Living but changing
- Access / protocol
- Community-bound / restricted
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateSri Lanka
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
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Stable attribution
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Sanni Yakuma / Tovil healing traditions. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 0589. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/0589
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