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[[Image:Lama Gonpo Phurba.jpg|thumb|350px|The '''Namchak Ter Phurba''' discovered by [[Nyang Ral Nyima Özer]], which belonged to [[Gönpo Tseten Rinpoche]]]]'''Phurba''' (Tib. [[ཕུར་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''phur pa''/''phur bu''; Skt. ''kīla''/''kīlaya'') — a ritual dagger with a pointed three-edge blade, such as that held by the deity [[Vajrakilaya]]. | [[Image:Lama Gonpo Phurba.jpg|thumb|350px|The '''Namchak Ter Phurba''' discovered by [[Nyang Ral Nyima Özer]], which belonged to [[Gönpo Tseten Rinpoche]]]] | ||
'''Phurba''' (Tib. [[ཕུར་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''phur pa''/''phur bu''; Skt. ''kīla''/''kīlaya'') — a ritual dagger with a pointed three-edge blade, such as that held by the deity [[Vajrakilaya]]. | |||
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Revision as of 14:15, 5 February 2012
Phurba (Tib. ཕུར་པ་, Wyl. phur pa/phur bu; Skt. kīla/kīlaya) — a ritual dagger with a pointed three-edge blade, such as that held by the deity Vajrakilaya.
Four Phurbas
According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas:
- Tib. བསྐྱེད་རིམ་སྲིད་པའི་ཕུར་པ་, 'kyérim sipé phurba: the kyérim, or generative phase of the phurba of existence.
- Tib. མཚན་མ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཕུར་པ་, tsenma dzé kyi phurba: the actual material phurba
- Tib. རྫོགས་རིམ་'བྱང་སེམས་ཕུར་པ་, 'dzogrim changsem phurba: the dzogrim or dissolution phase, of the phurba of bodhichitta.
- Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཕུར་པ་, rigpa dön gyi phurba: the absolute phurba of rigpa.