Very beautiful vintage phurba from Nepal, made from brass and with an iron blade.
The handle of this phurba shows a very nicely detailed depiction of Vajrakilaya (or, in Tibetan language, Dorje Phurba), a wrathful manifestation of Vajrasattva. Vajrakilaya is considered to be the main deity connected to all phurba activities. 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.
'Vajrakila' can roughly be translated as 'dagger of indestructable reality'. Practices associated with Vajrakilaya are designed to cut through and remove all inner and outer obstacled on the path to enlightenment. His practices are considered to be the most powerful for removing obstacles, destroying forces hostile to compassion, and purifying spiritual pollution.
This phurba measures 25 centimeters length and 10 centimeters width and has an astonishing heavy weight of 864 grams.
Read more about the design symbolism and usage of the phurba in the general description of the webshop-collection "Ritual Attributes; Phurba's".
