RARE ANTIQUE 18TH CENTURY TIBETAN TIBET BUDDHIST RITUAL KANGLING TRUMPET HORN
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RARE ANTIQUE 18TH CENTURY TIBETAN TIBET BUDDHIST RITUAL KANGLING TRUMPET HORN:
$449.00
Please view all pictures for condition and to serve as part of the description this is all original some cracks in the femur
Kangling (Tibetan: རྐང་གླིང།, Wylie: rkang-gling), literally translated as \"leg\" (kang) \"flute\" (ling), is the Tibetan name for a trumpet or horn made out of a human femur, used in Himalayan Buddhism for various chöd rituals as well as funerals performed by a chöpa.[1] The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred.[2] Alternatively, the femur of a respected teacher may be used.[3] The kangling may also be made out of wood.
The kangling should only be used in chöd rituals performed outdoors with the chöd damaru and bell.In Tantric chöd practice, the practitioner, motivated by compassion, plays the kangling as a gesture of fearlessness, to summon hungry spirits and demons so that she or he may satisfy their hunger and thereby relieve their sufferings. It is also played as a way of \"cutting off of the ego.\"[citation needed]
RARE ANTIQUE 18TH CENTURY TIBETAN TIBET BUDDHIST RITUAL KANGLING TRUMPET HORN:
$449.00