decorativeindulgences: 17th-19th cent., [Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Skull Vessel ‘Kapala&rs
decorativeindulgences:17th-19th cent., [Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Skull Vessel ‘Kapala’]During tantric meditation these skullcaps are filled with a liquid called ‘the inner offering’, and this alcoholic ritual substance is visualised by the monks as having five corpses and five bodily excretions. The meditation transforms these into ambrosia, symbolic of the five delusions of the mind being transformed into the five wisdoms, and the five psychophysical aggregates being transformed into the five Buddha’s. via Finch & Co., Antiques & Works of Art -- source link
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