Buddhist Kapala Set | Skull Cup | Ritual Items from Nepal
Tibetan Copper Kapala Set with Gold Plating In Tibetan Buddhist culture, the Kapala or Skull Bowl is used ritually in several ways. Our Ritual Kapala set comes in a set of two, both made from copper body and handcarved with amazing gold plating details of Buddhist symbols. The "jewel-bowl" is decorated with victory flags at each side which additionally beautifies the whole offering set. For example, practitioners can use it as a bowl of altar offerings and fill it with wine or blood as a gift/offering to all the gods of the guardian deity or mandala or for performing higher esoteric rituals. The skull cup, is also known as a Yogi's Begging Bowl; this is due to the belief that drinking from a skull cup shows a yogi's renunciation of the world and its conventions. A skull cup has three different parts; skull cup, cover and a base, twhich is symbolic of cooking of offerings in a pot burned over flames. --------------------------------------------------- Size: 23 cm(Height) and 13.5cm(B