| Those who are mainly interested in the transcendental siddhi of buddhahood are given all eleven initiations. |
| Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations. |
| Besides community initiations, there were ceremonies for individual persons of deeper religious longing. |
| That practice carries over into some modern secret society initiations, where participants are hooded or masked to conceal their identities. |
| They alone are allowed to touch the Linga because they have received the proper initiations, especially the nirvana diksha. |
| The cumulative effect of these descent scenes is to establish Spenser as the poet of initiations. |
