Very nice phurba pendants from Nepal, made of a good quality white-bronze in an almost silvery color. From vintage origin.
These pendants can be used as protective amulet pendant, or for that purpose be attached to your ritual costume or attributes, but also as a fully functional ritual attribute in handy travel-size.
Weight is approximately 25 grams and length is 8 centimeters (measured including the eyelet on top).
Design characteristics;
These phurba pendants carry the depiction of the buddhist bull-headed deity Yamantaka, the most wrathful manifestation of Manjushri. He embodies a wrath so powerful that it can be a danger even to himself if not controlled properly. The name 'yamantaka' consists of 'Yama' and 'antaka' and can roughly be translated as 'Destroyer of the Lord of Death'; by defeating Yama (the Lord of Death) the endless cycle of samsara can be broken. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Yamantaka is often equated with the meditational deity Vajrabhairava, but in his bull-headed depiction as Yamantaka he can be dated back to the earlier school of Nyingma or even the pre-buddhist Bon spirituality of Tibet. In the different schools, the role of Yamantaka may vary a bit, from a very strong protector (especially a 'dharmapala'; protector of the buddhist dharma) to a wrathful destroyer with an almost uncontrollable rage.
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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".
