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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface

Krodhagaṇabalimaṇḍala (क्रोधगणबलिमण्डल) refers to the “circle of food offerings for the group of wrathful divinities” and forms part of the ceremonial circle of the kalaśa-pūjā (during which the projected divinity descends into the kalaśa—flask), according to William Stablein’s A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pujas as a Medical-Cultural System (with References to Tibetan Parallels).—The tshog shin (sacred tree) is also mentally visualized.—The saṃkalpa [intention] of the pūjā becomes an āvāhana [call] for the projected divinity to descend in the kalaśa [flask]. [...] The Ceremonial Circle of the kalaśapūjā consists of, e.g., [...] (3) Krodhagaṇabalimaṇḍala [of food offerings for the group of wrathful divinities]. [...]

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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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Partial matches: Balimandala, Krodhaganabali, Krodhagana, Mandala.

Full-text: Krodhagana, Krodhaganabali.

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