Re: Introduction
Ok, let's have a look at your "peaceful" Buddhists...
19th century Tibetan skull cup
-The skull cup, or kapala (Sanskrit), is a cup made of the oval upper section of a human cranium. Skull cups are used primarily in Tibetan rituals and symbolic art.
-When used for esoteric rituals, the history of the cranium's original owner has an important bearing on its ritual potency. The skull of a murder or execution victim is believed to possess the greatest tantric power...
-In the ritual, lamas and other advanced practitioners drink consecrated alcoholic beverages or sometimes even blood from the skull cup, symbolizing the wrathful deity drinking the blood of his or her victim.
-information and picture from http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhis.../skull_cup.htm
Yup, that's Tibetan Buddhism, the sect the Dalai Lama is from.
Originally posted by Kotadiatu
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-The skull cup, or kapala (Sanskrit), is a cup made of the oval upper section of a human cranium. Skull cups are used primarily in Tibetan rituals and symbolic art.
-When used for esoteric rituals, the history of the cranium's original owner has an important bearing on its ritual potency. The skull of a murder or execution victim is believed to possess the greatest tantric power...
-In the ritual, lamas and other advanced practitioners drink consecrated alcoholic beverages or sometimes even blood from the skull cup, symbolizing the wrathful deity drinking the blood of his or her victim.
-information and picture from http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhis.../skull_cup.htm
Yup, that's Tibetan Buddhism, the sect the Dalai Lama is from.


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