Kapala's & Yama's

Fenix

Have you ever hears of this? Kapala and Yama refer to decorated skulls. here have a look

www.boneroom.com/skulls/tibetanskulls.html

pretty neat, eh?

federica

This practice is extremely well-known and was standard in Tibetan Buddhism.
It was an extremely graphic - yet basic - way of coming to terms with the brevity, fragility and impermanent state of life. What better way to demonstrate the impermanence of skandas and the human body? Here today, gone tomorrow.

I'm not so sure it's done now.....

And selling these religious relics for such exorbitant sums of money is blatant profiteering and extremely disrespectful.

in my opinion.
though I guess that would be an attachment, right there.

Cinorjer

In this case, I'm almost certain these are fakes made for the market. Even the website admits they don't appear to be old and beyond coming from China, they don't really know if they started in Tibet at all. That raises troubling questions about where the human skulls came from in the first place.

There are some interesting skull cap drinking cups in museums that definitely came from Tibet.

Fenix

ye, I am entriqued by skulls and would like to own a human skull, but I agree with you that the website is at best dubious by any standards

person

They also make horns out of femur bones.