A charnel ground (Sanskrit: श्मशान; IAST: śmaśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö; Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད, Wylie: dur khrod) is an above-ground site for the...

kapala is one of several charnel ground implements made from human bone found by tantrics at sky burial sites. The charnel ground, an ancient Tibetan burial...

from Middle French charnel, from Late Latin carnāle ("graveyard"), from Latin carnālis ("of the flesh"). In countries where ground suitable for burial...

predecessors, Aghoris usually engage in post-mortem rituals, often dwell in charnel grounds, smear cremation ashes on their bodies, and use bones from human...

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of Tantra, particularly the transgressive elements dealing with the charnel ground. According to Samuel, one group of Shaiva ascetics, the Pasupatas, practiced...

a forest, under the shade of a tree, mountain, glen, hillside cave, charnel ground, jungle grove, in the open, or on a heap of straw). The Vinaya and Sutrayana...

saint, feared and/or held in awe due to their roles as denizens of the charnel ground. According to tibetologist Jérôme Édou, chod practitioners were often...

said to have been practiced by numerous saints. Barrett discusses the charnel ground sadhana of the Aghori practitioners in both its left and right-handed...

portal Aghori – Tantric Shaivite tradition and monastic order Charnel ground – Above-ground location for disposal of the dead Chöd – Buddhist religious...

worship of Shakti and Shiva that is associated with cremation-ground or charnel ground sceticism, found in Shaktism and Shaivism. Kaula preserves some...

deities such as Mahakala and Bhairava, and bear the accoutrements of charnel ground dwelling yogins—did not solely derive from a mainstream monastic Buddhist...

where a corpse would be left exposed to decay in a field, graveyard, or charnel ground.: 25  The exact stages included vary between sources. The Mahaprajnaparamitita-sastra...

Illustration of mindfulness of death using corpses in a charnel ground, a subset of mindfulness of the body, the first satipatthana. From an early-20th-century...

under 'Lhundrup Tsek' or 'Spontaneous Mound charnel ground' and is revered among the eight great charnel grounds where Padmasambhava meditated and gained...

as the use of taboo substances like alcohol, consort practices, and charnel ground practices which evoke wrathful deities. Ryujun Tajima divides the tantras...

the path and accomplish the fruit, the "ground" (Sanskrit: āśraya; Wylie: gzhi) of realization: The charnel ground is not merely the hermitage; it can also...

Anālayo, the sources indicate that the practice could have been done in a charnel ground with real corpses but also indicate that one may visualize this as well...

stramonium and D. metel have reportedly been used by some sadhus and charnel ground ascetics, such as the Aghori, as both an entheogen and ritual poison...

be developed by practicing meditation on death (maranasati) and the charnel ground meditations as outlined in the Satipatthana sutta. In the Upajjhatthana...

procedure takes place on a large flat rock long used for the purpose. The charnel ground (durtro) is always higher than its surroundings. It may be very simple...

Tibetan: pal dur tro dag po yab yum. English: the Glorious Lords of the Charnel Ground - Father-Mother) also called Chitipati is considered Lord of Shmashana...

ganachakra. This sādhanā (practice) is common to another denizen of the charnel ground, Dattātreya the avadhūta, to whom has been attributed the nondualist...

Bhairavi and her consort Shiva depicted as Kāpālika ascetics, sitting in a charnel ground. Painting by Payāg from a 17th-century manuscript (c. 1630–1635), Metropolitan...

heads. His birth brings about plague and famine, so he is banished to a charnel ground, but he survives by devouring his mother's corpse and returns in order...

aṣṭhimudrā) such as human skulls and other ornaments associated with the charnel ground, as well as being often depicted with sexually suggestive attributes...

tent of robes. Charnel-ground-dweller's Practice (susanik'anga) — living in or nearby a charnel-field, graveyard or cremation ground (In ancient India...

contain a specific outer locality which is clearly identified as a charnel ground. The colors for the painting are usually made with naturally colored...

the following about tantric iconography of weapons and mentions the charnel ground: Many of these weapons and implements have their origins in the wrathful...

(referring to Les Chants de Maldoror), Durtro (from the Tibetan word for charnel ground), Jnana Records, Coptic Cat, The Spheres, Ghost Story Press, and Cashen's...