Charnel ground

Eight cemeteries in India where the bodies of the deceased are cut up and offered to the vultures and dogs to eat, visualized as surrounding the mandala palaces in many of the anuttaryoga tantra practices.

Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད། dur-khrod

Sanskrit: śmaśāna


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