Buddhistic objects - Copper - 1980-1990 - Tibetan Kapala Cup

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Selected by Surya Rutten

A complete kapala (Tibetan: thod-pa) set — the ritual skull cup of Vajrayana Buddhism, used in tantric offerings to the Dakinis, Mahakala and other wrathful deities. Where a real human skull was used in older times, modern altar pieces like this one are cast in bronze as a symbolic equivalent: the cup represents emptiness (shunyata), the wisdom that cuts through all fixation.

No. 107851573

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Buddhistic objects - Copper - 1980-1990 - Tibetan Kapala Cup

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