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    term kapāla, meaning "skull", and kāpālika can be translated as the "skull-men" or "skull-bearers". The Kāpālikas were an extinct sect of Shaivite ascetics...
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    ascetic order, the Kāpālikas, or "wearers of skulls"." According to David Lorenzen, there is a paucity of primary sources on the Kāpālikas, and historical...
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    emblematic staff of the early Indian Shaivite yogis, known as kapalikas or "skull-bearers". The kapalikas were originally miscreants who had been sentenced to...
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  • Kapalika is a Malayalam Drama film directed by Preethy Panikker. The film is produced by Madhusoodanan and starring Sona Nair, K. Madhu and Sreelatha in...
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    Kapala (section Kapalikas)
    from kapāla, meaning "skull", and Kāpālika means the "skull-men". The Kāpālikas were an extinct sect of Shaivite ascetics devoted to the Hindu god Shiva...
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    drunken Kapalikas, Satyasoma and his woman, Devasoma. Full of drunken antics, they stumble from tavern to tavern searching for more alcohol. The Kapalikas are...
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    the Kapalikas in his Sri Bhasya work, in which he noted them as eating from a skull and keeping wine. Such practices were common for the Kapalikas but...
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    with it. The 6th-century Varāhamihira mentions Kapalikas in his literary works. Some of the Kāpālika practices mentioned in these texts are those found...
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  • mysterious and horrific events at the centre of which lies a cult of Kapalikas that worships Kali. Robert Luczak is sent by the American literary magazine...
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  • summoning Kapalika, whom Nikki challenges. Knowing that her blood could gravely harm Kapalika, after an intense battle, Nikki stabs herself and Kapalika with...
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    monastic life. Some sadhus such as the Aghori share the practices of ancient Kapalikas, in which they beg with a skull, smear their body with ashes from the...
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    (Traditions) Major Sampradaya (Traditions) Vaishnavism Pancharatra Shaivism Kapalika Pashupata Pratyabhijña Shaktism Smartism Other Sampradaya (Traditions)...
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    staff of the early Indian Shaivite yogins, known as kapalikas or 'skull-bearers'. The kapalikas were originally miscreants who had been sentenced to...
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    faces with a black streak and were contemporary to another sect known as Kapalikas. Their religious dogmas are not clear except for some inscriptions which...
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    Ramanandi Warkari Swaminarayan Shaivism Shaiva Siddhanta Ganapatya Kashmiri Kapalika Kaumaram Lingayatism Nath Balinese Shaktism Smartism Sauraism Śrauta Sant...
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  • of Svātmārāma. verse 1.58–63, pp. 19–21. Lorenzen, David (1972). The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas. University of California Press. pp. 186–190. ISBN 978-0-520-01842-6...
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    variety of practices. For example, historical records suggest the tantric Kapalikas (literally, the 'skull-men') co-existed with and shared many Vajrayana...
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  • BookBaby. ISBN 9780989996648. OCLC 897647792. Lorenzen, David (1972). The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas. University of California Press. pp. 186–190. ISBN 978-0-520-01842-6...
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    text and practice belonging to non-Buddhist groups, most notably the Kapalikas, an extreme and quasi-heretical Saiva group focusing on transgressive...
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    can be no question that the Buddhist tantras were heavily influenced by Kapalika and other Saiva movements" argues Davidson, "the influence was apparently...
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    (Traditions) Major Sampradaya (Traditions) Vaishnavism Pancharatra Shaivism Kapalika Pashupata Pratyabhijña Shaktism Smartism Other Sampradaya (Traditions)...
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    others suggest them to be amicable sub-traditions. Some texts state that Kapalikas reject the Vedas and are involved in extreme experimentation, while others...
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    Patna, India: Bihar Rastrabhasa Parisad Lorenzen, David (1972). The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas: Two Lost Śaiva Sects. Delhi: Thomson Eck, Diana L. (1983)...
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