Description
Traditional Snake Wine Skull-Headed Tibetan Phurba
About our ritual item
We have masterfully hand-carved the Tibetan Phurba in the traditional Himalayan style. This ritual item is masterfully carved from Buffalo bone(Ethically sourced buffalo bone) and has fine decoration along the entire length of it, demonstrating the artist's talent and commitment. Its most prominent characteristic is the skull-shaped head of the phurba, which represents the transformation of ignorance into knowledge. Feel the transformational effect of adding this holy item to your spiritual routine or home design.
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Size: 24cm(Height) and 3cm(Base)
Weight: 0.106 kg
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Introduction to Phurba
The ritual dagger (Sanskrit: Kila; Tibetan: phurba) is essential to the dispelling of evil and is understood as being especially helpful in neutralizing the forces that impede Tantric Buddhist practice. Its origins are ancient, appearing in the Indian Rg Veda as the central blade of the vajra that Indra used to slay the primordial cosmic snake Vritra. Its Sanskrit term, Kila, which means peg or stake, was probably linked to Vedic sacrifices. The three-headed Vajrakila Buddha is invoked through meditation on the Vajrakila Tantra; an early Indian text first propagated in Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, one of the founding masters of Tibetan Buddhism.