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kapala .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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