mahakala altar with empi ganachakra offerings is up there on the hardest filipino buddhist imageries
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
mahakala altar with empi ganachakra offerings is up there on the hardest filipino buddhist imageries
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April 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Gnostic Mass, Chöd, the Witches’s Supper, the Lord’s Supper, Ganachakra practice, Tsok, Mass of the Phoenix, Initiatory Mass, all of these adumbrate the same mystery: the Miracle at Midnight’s Table.
cf chinese buddhist ghost feeding ritual called the yujia yankou: offerings like coins and sweets are tossed before the altar to feed the ghosts
the human audience traditionally scrambles to collect the offerings as they are seen as blessed.
library.victoria.ac.nz/ebooks/UMIth...
the human audience traditionally scrambles to collect the offerings as they are seen as blessed.
library.victoria.ac.nz/ebooks/UMIth...
January 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Gnostic Mass, Chöd, the Witches’s Supper, the Lord’s Supper, Ganachakra practice, Tsok, Mass of the Phoenix, Initiatory Mass, all of these adumbrate the same mystery: the Miracle at Midnight’s Table.
Also Tantra sources; can't forget Ganachakra & Tsok feasts.
November 9, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Also Tantra sources; can't forget Ganachakra & Tsok feasts.
Fascinating timing for me on this, as I am studying a specific non-Christian perspective on feasting and grace in the context of the Tibetan tantric Ganachakra aka 'feasting on your enemies'. And, as I'm on 4 years of Long Covid, I miss feasting with friends so much.
Brilliant piece by @helendecruz.net on faith, feasting, and what could be. It seems to me that we have no choice — in the long term at least — but to assume the best about our possible futures, as Helen does here. And then work to make it happen, of course.
On brunch, feasting, and the meaning of grace
I finally watched Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987), a Danish movie about a French housekeeper, Babette, who organizes a big and sumptuous feast for her employers, two elderly single sisters. We ar...
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June 15, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Fascinating timing for me on this, as I am studying a specific non-Christian perspective on feasting and grace in the context of the Tibetan tantric Ganachakra aka 'feasting on your enemies'. And, as I'm on 4 years of Long Covid, I miss feasting with friends so much.