Buddhist Phurba
About Ritual Item
The handcrafted Phurba is a one-of-a-kind altar item with intricate detail and embedded gemstones. The Phurba's top is adorned with a half Vajra, which represents the male principle of enlightenment, followed by a three-faced Vajrakilaya, a wrathful deity in Vajrayana Buddhism, and finally, the Phurba itself, which represents a sacred dagger used for ritual purposes. The gemstones embedded in the Phurba add a layer of beauty and spiritual significance to the piece, each stone chosen for its distinct properties and symbolic meaning. The Phurba also comes with a stand for properly displaying the item.
Introduction to Phurba
The ritual dagger (Sanskrit: Kila; Tibetan: phurba) is essential to the dispelling of evil and is understood as being especially helpful in neutralizing the forces that impede Tantric Buddhist practice. Its origins are ancient, appearing in the Indian Rg Veda as the central blade of the vajra that Indra used to slay the primordial cosmic snake Vritra. Its Sanskrit term, Kila, which means peg or stake, was probably linked to Vedic sacrifices. The three-headed Vajrakila Buddha is invoked through meditation on the Vajrakila Tantra; an early Indian text first propagated in Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, one of the founding masters of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Size: 25cm(Height) and 10cm(Base)
Weight: 0.510kg
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