Vintage bronze pendant from Nepal showing the depiction of the winged Vajrakila (or, in Tibetan language, Dorje Phurba), a wrathful aspect of Vajrasattva. 'Vajrakila' can roughly be translated as 'dagger of indestructable reality'. Practices associated with Vajrakila are designed to remove all inner and outer obstacled on the path to enlightenment.
Vajrakila is said to hold in his open palms a phurba as vast as Mount Meru, the esoteric mountain in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology that is considered to be the centre of all universes.
This pendant is approximately 5 centimeters high (measured inclduing the eyelet) and 2 centimeters wide. It weighs 14 grams.
