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    A charnel ground (Sanskrit: श्मशान; IAST: śmaśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö; Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད, Wylie: dur khrod) is an above-ground site for the...
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    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...
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    from Middle French charnel, from Late Latin carnāle ("graveyard"), from Latin carnālis ("of the flesh"). In countries where ground suitable for burial...
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    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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    Shmashana (redirect from Cremation ground)
    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...
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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...
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    (Tape Drift Records, 2022) cassette only, limited edition of 50 copies Charnel Ground (12XU, 2018) LP Varshons (The End Records, 2009) Varshons II (Fire Records...
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    balance. Religion portal Aghori – Tantric sect within Shaivism Charnel ground – Above-ground location for disposal of the dead Chöd – Buddhist religious...
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    worship of Shakti and Shiva that is associated with cremation-ground or charnel ground sceticism, found in Shaktism and Shaivism. Kaula preserves some...
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    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...
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