"Baron Von Killington" is comic.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @slatestarcodex
It’s sort of awkward that my yidam (“tutelary deity”) has a row of skulls on her headdress
#makesyouthinkpic.twitter.com/KVQhaaY2Nh
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Replying to @Meaningness
the tutelary deity also has severed heads of balding men on her trident...iconic!
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Replying to @arunnanda
That’s called “the tantric joke,” technically. There’s three impaled heads, a freshly-severed one, a rotting one, & a bare skull…
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Replying to @Meaningness @arunnanda
which represent the trikaya, and the three wisdoms of clarity, bliss, and emptiness, respectively!
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Replying to @Meaningness
I find it hard to imagine how a rotting head symbolizes bliss...but thats tantra for me.
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Replying to @arunnanda
Well, it’s a joke :-) But, the logic is that the sambhogakaya, corresponding to bliss, is intermediate between nirmana- & dharma-
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Replying to @Meaningness @arunnanda
… just as a rotting head is halfway between freshly killed and a bare skull! (No accounting for tastes…)
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Replying to @Meaningness
they sure could use a little marketing finesse... but oddly enough, picturing rotting heads makes one rather pensive and somber
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Replying to @arunnanda
I think that’s also part of the point. Horror and openness to suffering and the bliss of enlightenment are inseparable…
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I wrote about this at https://vividness.live/2012/08/22/charnel-ground/ … and https://vividness.live/2012/09/11/pure-land/ … (best read together!)
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