ཐོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms

ཐོད་པ།
ཐོད།

thod pa
thod

kapāla
yogapātra

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

skull

Emergence from Sampuṭa

skull

ཐོད།

thod

yogapātra
kapāla

Definition in this text:

The vault or calvaria of a human skull used as a cup held by some wrathful deities, often filled with blood; or a skull cup used as a ritual implement.

77 passages contain this term

1

skull cup

The Tantra of Black Yamāri

skull cup

ཐོད་པ།

thod pa

kapāla AS

Definition in this text:

The vault or calvaria of a human skull used as a cup held by some wrathful deities, often filled with blood, or a skull cup used as a ritual implement.

16 passages contain this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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