Khandakapalin, Khaṇḍakapālin: 2 definitions
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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: academia.edu: A Critical Study of the Vajraḍākamahātantrarāja (II)Khaṇḍakapālin (खण्डकपालिन्) is the husband of Pracaṇḍā: the name of a Ḍākinī (‘sacred girl’) presiding over Pullīramalaya: one of the four Pīṭhas (‘sacred spot’) present within the Cittacakra (‘circle of mid’), according to the 9th-centruy Vajraḍākatantra. The Cittacakra is one of three Cakras within the Tricakra system which embodies twenty-four sacred spots or districts resided over by twenty-four Ḍākinīs whose husbands (viz., Khaṇḍakapālin) abide in one’s body in the form of twenty-four ingredients (dhātu) of one’s body.
Pracaṇḍā has for her husband the hero (vīra) named Khaṇḍakapālin. She is the presiding deity of Pullīramalaya and the associated internal location is ‘head’ and the bodily ingredients (dhātu) are ‘fingernails’ and ‘teeth’.
Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka MaṇḍalaKhaṇḍakapālin (खण्डकपालिन्) is the name of a Vīra (hero) who, together with the Ḍākinī named Pracaṇḍā forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Vajracakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the vajracakra refers to one of the four divisions of the sahaja-puṭa (‘innate layer’), situated within the padma (lotus) in the middle of the Herukamaṇḍala. The 36 pairs of Ḍākinīs and Vīras [viz., Khaṇḍakapālin] each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum and a knife; they are dark-bluish-black in color.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
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Full-text: Pracanda, Pulliramalaya, Vajracakra.
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