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Kamandalu

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A water-pot of Indian ascetic and later iconographic speech. Not a generic cup, and not a canopic jar.

Buddhist traditions

  • Kamandalu appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra’s assembly and renunciant speech seats water-pots among the gear of practitioners — the published kamandalu entity carries that ascetic pot keep-apart from kalasha as consecration/plenty vase. A named kamandalu in that sūtra, not a generic flask and not bumpa.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.