Empowerment, Initiation, Power, Force; 灌頂, 力量 (旺); Tibetan: དབང (wang); Wylie: dbang; Sanskrit: Abhisheka;
An empowerment, Initiation, is a Vajrayana ritual which a qualified guru initiates and gives permission to a student into a tantric practice. It plants a seed into the mind of the student, the potential for Buddhahood and to create connections to the guru and to the deity.
金剛乘修持者必須從具格上師處接收密法灌頂,包括加持及教授 。