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Mara (Buddhist Demon) MBTI Personality Type

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Personality

What personality type is Mara (Buddhist Demon)? Mara (Buddhist Demon) is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, - sx/sp - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.

Biography

Mara (Sanskrit: मार, Māra; Chinese: 天魔; pinyin: Tiānmó; Tibetan Wylie: bdud; Khmer: មារ; Burmese: မာရ်နတ်; Thai: มาร; Sinhalese: මාරයා), in Buddhism, is the demon that tempted Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is associated with death, rebirth and desire. Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment."The word "Māra" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *mer meaning to die.

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