Goma, therefore, is a practice peculiar to esoteric Buddhism (a school of Mahayana Buddhism) and does not exist in Theravada Buddhism which is supposed to approximate the actual teachings of Shakyamuni in his own words.
そのため、護摩は密教（大乗仏教の一派）にのみ存在する修法であり、釈尊の直説に近いとされる上座部仏教には存在しない。