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This is very beautiful handcrafted Tibetan Phurba made from Bronze, Brass and Iron.
- Length : 10.75 in / 18.8 cm
- Width : 1.75 in / 2.8 cm
- Weight : 1.5 lb / 700 g
Ritual utensils are the essential tools of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism practice, used to drive away the delusions that act as impediments to enlightenment. The phurba (Sanskrit: kila) dagger was designed to symbolically consume the triple poisons of ignorance, greed, and delusion that impede spiritual progress. The phurba is the embodiment of the Vajrakila Buddha, who is empowered to suppress all evil in the world. Its ritual use is first described in the Vajrakilaya Tantra, a Vajrayana text dating to the eighth century or earlier.
The Phurba - Ceremonial Dagger, is a central ritual tool for all shamanic rituals - so central, in fact, that its use is rarely specified but simply presumed. Phurba is used in Buddhist ceremonies to exorcise demons or as a spiritual nail to pin down the distractions of greed, desire, envy. The three sides of the Phurba destroy the three poisons: attachment, aversion, delusion.
Phurba is used as a means of destroying violence, hatred, and aggression by tying them to the blade of the phurba and then vanquishing them with its tip. It is also regarded as a powerful weapon which subdues evil spirits and negative energies, transforming them into positive forces. It is therefore that the phurba is not a physical weapon, but a spiritual implement for ritual and ceremony.
