“Kangling”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Kangling ({{Bo|t=རྐང་གླིང་། |w=rkang-gling}}), literally translated as "leg" (kang) "flute" (ling), is the Tibetan name for a trumpet or horn made out of a human femur, used in Tibetan Buddhism for various chöd rituals as well as funerals performed by a chöpa. The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred.^[1] Alternatively, the femur of a respected teacher may be used.^[2] The kangling may also be made out of wood.

The kangling should only be used in chöd rituals performed outdoors with the chöd damaru and bell.^[1] In Tantric chöd practice, the practitioner, motivated by compassion, plays the kangling as a gesture of fearlessness, to summon hungry spirits and demons so that she or he may satisfy their hunger and thereby relieve their sufferings. It is also played as a way of "cutting off of the ego."{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}

A minor figure from Katok Monastery, the First Chonyi Gyatso, Chopa Lugu (17th - mid-18th century), is remembered for his "nightly bellowing of bone-trumpet [kangling] and shouting of phet" on pilgrimage, much to the irritation of the business traveler who accompanied him. Chopa Lugu became renowned as "The Chod Yogi Who Split a Cliff in China (rgya nag brag bcad gcod pa)."^[3]

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1. ^¹{{cite book |author=O.C. Handa |title=Buddhist Monasteries of Himachal |publisher=Indus Publishing Company |location= |year=2005 |pages=320 |isbn=81-7387-170-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
2. ^{{cite book |author=Andrea Loseries-Leick |title=Tibetan Mahayoga Tantra: An Ethno Historical Study of Skulls, Bones and Relics |publisher=B.R. Pub. Corp |location= |year=2008 |pages=225 |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
3. ^{{Cite encyclopedia| last = Chhosphel| first = Samten| title = The First Chonyi Gyatso, Chopa Lugu| encyclopedia = The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters| accessdate = 2013-10-08| date = December 2011| url = http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Chopa-Lugu/8631}}