vetāda ［毘陀羅］ (;  bidara): Also, vetāla. An evil spirit said to kill its enemies by setting corpses it has raised from the dead against them. In China, vetāda was translated as “corpse-raising demon.” In the “Universal Worthy” (twenty-eighth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattva Universal Worthy tells Shakyamuni Buddha: “If there is someone who accepts and upholds this sutra, I will guard and protect him . . . No devil, devil’s son, devil’s daughter, devil’s minion, or one possessed by the devil, no yaksha, rākshasa, kumbhānda, pishācha, kritya, putāna, vetāda, or other being that torments humans will be able to take advantage of him.”