KAPALA DANDA EN BOIS ET ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE TIBET, XIXE SIÈCLEKAPALA DANDA EN BOIS ET ALLIAGE DE CUIVRETIBET, XIXE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 205099 57.5 cm (22 5/8 in.) high敬請注意，本拍品不設底價A WOOD AND COPPER ALLOY KAPALA DANDATIBET, 19TH CENTURY西藏 十九世紀 木嵌銅骷髏杖This ritual implement, the kapala danda (skull club), vanquishes harmful phenomena. The implement is also wielded by Yama Dharamaraja, "The Lord of Death", who uses the club to annihilate karmic defilements that precipitate the cycle of death and rebirth. The skull head has purifying, wisdom flames that protrude from the mouth. The stylized club transforms the human skeleton into an abstract body of magical ritual empowerment.For a kapala danda with similar skull head and wisdom flames, see Henss, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet, Stuttgart, 2020, p. 199, no. 237. Also, see a 19th-century danda offered at Florence Number Nine, Florence, 19 November 2013, lot 568.