What Is a Kapala? (Definition & Identity) Pick up a kapala and you are holding one of the most misunderstood objects in Tibetan Buddhism. The word itself is plain: kapāla...
What Is a Kapala? (Definition & Identity) Pick up a kapala and you are holding one of the most misunderstood objects in Tibetan Buddhism. The word itself is plain: kapāla...
Tibetan Buddhism turns ideas into objects you can hold. Nowhere is that clearer than in the ritual implements, the vajra, bell, skull bowl, and the rest, each one a handheld...
Tibetan Buddhism turns ideas into objects you can hold. Nowhere is that clearer than in the ritual implements, the vajra, bell, skull bowl, and the rest, each one a handheld...
Tibetan Buddhist art is full of animals, but they are not decoration. Each creature carries a job: to guard a threshold, to mark an auspicious wish, or to stand in...
Tibetan Buddhist art is full of animals, but they are not decoration. Each creature carries a job: to guard a threshold, to mark an auspicious wish, or to stand in...
Some symbols in Tibetan art are easier to feel than to draw. Makara is one of them. He is a sea beast with no fixed shape: part crocodile, part elephant,...
Some symbols in Tibetan art are easier to feel than to draw. Makara is one of them. He is a sea beast with no fixed shape: part crocodile, part elephant,...
Look up at the eaves of an old Himalayan temple and you may catch a snout — jaw open, tongue curling out, half crocodile and half something that never swam...
Look up at the eaves of an old Himalayan temple and you may catch a snout — jaw open, tongue curling out, half crocodile and half something that never swam...
Most people in the West hear "dragon" and picture a winged lizard sitting on a pile of gold. In Tibet the word opens a different door. The dragon here is...
Most people in the West hear "dragon" and picture a winged lizard sitting on a pile of gold. In Tibet the word opens a different door. The dragon here is...
