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  • noun A kapala.

Etymologies

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skull +‎ cup

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Examples

  • We transform into a simple Kalachakra, with one face and two arms, holding vajra and bell, with a blue body, right leg red and outstretched, left leg white and bent, and embracing a blue Vishvamata, with one face and two arms, holding a cleaver and skullcup.

    Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 12 Outline of the Kalachakra Initiation 1997

  • The disciples are generated in the form of a simple Kalachakra, with one face and two arms, holding vajra and bell, with a blue body, right leg red and outstretched, left leg white and bent, and embracing a blue Vishvamati, with one face and two arms, holding a cleaver and skullcup.

    Detailed Outline of the Kalachakra Empowerment ��� 2 Entering the Mandala 1995

  • The Handsome Causer of Harm, the Totally Excellent Ones and the Ladies Diamond-Strong Sounds are all blue, with three faces, blue, red and white, and six arms, holding in their right hands a diamond-strong scepter, a cleaver and axe, and in their left a diamond-strong scepter bell, a skullcup and a head of a Fastidious First.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Sensations all have three faces, black, red and white, and six arms, holding in their right hands a sword, a cleaver and trident, and in their left a shield, a skullcup and a white symbolic "couch leg" staff.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Sensations all have three faces, black, red and white, and six arms, holding in their right hands a sword, a cleaver and trident, and in their left a shield, a skullcup and a white symbolic "couch leg" staff.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Holding a variety of hand-insignia like a cleaver, a skullcup and so on.

    Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1985

  • Diamond-Strong Sphere of Reality all have three faces, green, red and white, and six arms, holding in their right hands a diamond-strong scepter, a cleaver and axe, and in their left a diamond-strong bell, a skullcup and a head of a Fastidious First.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • The Handsome Causer of Harm, the Totally Excellent Ones and the Ladies Diamond-Strong Sounds are all blue, with three faces, blue, red and white, and six arms, holding in their right hands a diamond-strong scepter, a cleaver and axe, and in their left a diamond-strong scepter bell, a skullcup and a head of a Fastidious First.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Spiritual Hero with Diamond-Strong Mind, and embraced by an Imperturbable One, green with three faces - green, red and white - and six arms, holding in his three right hands a diamond-strong scepter, a cleaver and axe, and in his three left ones a diamond-strong bell, a skullcup and a head of a Fastidious First.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Mind Mandala Sadhana sDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs thub-bstan nyi-ma 1985

  • Of my four black hands on the left, in the first is a diamond-strong bell, in the second a shield, in the third a khatvanga symbolic "couch-leg" staff in spread-out aspect, and in the fourth a skullcup full of blood.

    Abbreviated Single-Deity Kalachakra Sadhana Thu'u-bkwan Blo-bzang chos-kyi nyi-ma 1985

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