The Kāpālika tradition was a non-Puranic,tantric form
of shaivism in India, whose
members wrote the Bhairava
Tantras, including the subdivision called the Kaula Tantras. These groups are
generally known as Kāpālikas, the "skull-men," so called because,
like the Lākula Pāsupata, they carried a skull-topped staff (khatvanga) and cranium begging bowl. Unlike the respectable Brahmin householder of the Shaiva
Siddhanta, the Kāpālika ascetic imitated
his ferocious deity, and covered himself in the ashes from the cremation
ground, and propitated his gods with the impure substances of blood, meat,
alcohol, and sexual fluids from intercourse unconstrained by caste
restrictions.[1] The Kāpālikas thus flaunted impurity rules and went
against Vedic injunctions.[1] The aim was power through evoking deities, especially
goddesses.
Hindu kapalika ascetics
have evolved into an extreme outcast sect of the 'left-hand' tantric path (Skt.
vamamarg) of shakti or goddess worship. The early Buddhist
tantric yogins and yoginis adopted the same goddess or dakini attributes of the kapalikas. These attributes consisted
of; bone ornaments, an animal skin loincloth, marks of human ash, a skull-cup,damaru,
flaying knife, thighbone trumpet, and the skull-topped tantric staff or khatvanga.While in the cases of Goraksh nath and his Guru
Matseyndra nath it is obvious that they were the worshipers of Śiva, so
is the case with Kāṇhapa and Jālandharipā.
Relation with Buddism
The great Siddha yogi Kanipa was one of most remarkable
personalities amongst the Māhasiddhas of the Tantrik traditions of India and
Tibet. In different stories he appearing under various names, as Kṛṣṇācārya, Kṛṣṇāpāda,
Kānhupāda, Kānphā, Kaṇha-pa, Kāṇha, ācārya Caryāpa, Kaniphanāth, Kānarī-nāth?,
Kānupā and more. It is seems as the established historical fact that he was the
chief disciple of the Natha Siddha Jalandhar Nath, and live at the same period
of time with the Guru Goraksh Nath, whom he have met few times. He appeared as
the remarkable and powerful yogi in the Indian Śaiva tradition of the Nātha
yogis and in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Vajrayana Māhasiddhas. The
both traditions agree that he was prominent Siddha yogi and at the same time paṇḍita
(highly learned man), and had lot of disciples.
ref;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapalika
aghora
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