Skull Artifact

Human skulls are widely used in the tantric Buddhist rituals of Bhutan as vessel for religious elixir. Originating in the renegade kalpalika religious tradition of India in which practitioners live in cemetaries and feed on human corpses using skulls as vessels, the tantric Buddhist tradition has esoteric practice in which human feaces, urine, blood, semen, etc. are consumed and skulls, skins and bones are used. Although the practice is now more symbolic in nature, human skull is still commonly used as vessel. There is a whole art of evaluating the right skull, of treating it and then using it in rituals. Some skulls are beautifull plated with previous metal and studded with jewels.