Vintage brass pendant from Nepal showing the 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. Vajrakilaya 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 pendant is approximately 5,8 centimeters high (measured including the eyelet) and 1,8 centimeters wide. It weighs 12 grams.
This pendant comes from Nepal, is made of brass and is from vintage origin, therefore showing some signs of its age and previous usage.
Read more about the general and specific design and symbolism of the phurba in the general description of the webshop-collection "Ritual Attributes; Phurba's".
