- forehead,
usually of a human. By ****ociation, it
refers to the
ritual skullcup fashioned out of a
human cranium. The
Sanskrit word, in turn, was derived...
- A
Tantric Buddhist statue of Mahakala,
holding a
flaying knife (kartika) and
skullcup (kapala)....
- banner, a
sword or dagger, a mirror, a hook, a trident, a wand, and a
skullcup filled with blood. Tara (Devi) Tara (Buddhism) Tara as a
Tantric deity...
-
Buddhas and
sometimes are
depicted with
unique tantric elements, such as
skullcups and
flaying knives.
These tantric deities include Simhamukha, Mahamaya...
- of the
human skeleton were emplo**** in
ritual tools such as the
kapala (
skullcup) and
kangling (thigh-bone trumpet). The 'symbolic bone ornaments' (Sanskrit:...
- Are Born With: A
Buddhist Approach to
Psychology (2005) The
Teacup & the
Skullcup:
Chogyam Trungpa on Zen and
Tantra (2007) The
Mishap Lineage: Transforming...
- (club), the
pasha (whip), the
shula (spear), the
damaru (drum), the
kapala (
skullcup), and a snake, with the
other two
carrying a
piece of
flesh and expressing...
-
normally depicted sitting on a
lotus flower and
holding a
vajra and a
skullcup. One
account of his
birth is that he
appeared inside a
lotus flower. In...
-
Mahakala statue,
holding a
flaying knife (kartika) and
skullcup (kapala)...
- Padmasambhava, the
archetypal vajra master in
Tibetan Buddhism,
holding a
vajra and a
skullcup, both
important tantric ritual implements....
