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==Teachings given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha== | |||
*[[Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 13 August 2018 | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 09:08, 14 August 2018
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.
Subdivisions
According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas.
One way to enumerate them is:[1]
- the kyérim, or generative phase, of the phurba of existence (Tib. བསྐྱེད་རིམ་སྲིད་པའི་ཕུར་པ་, kyérim sipé phurba)
- the actual material phurba (Tib. མཚན་མ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཕུར་པ་, tsenma dzé kyi phurba)
- the dzogrim, or dissolution phase, of the phurba of bodhichitta (Tib. རྫོགས་རིམ་བྱང་སེམས་ཕུར་པ་, dzogrim changsem phurba)
- the absolute phurba of rigpa (Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཕུར་པ་, rigpa dön gyi phurba)
Alternatively[2]:
- the wisdom awareness phurba (Tib. rig pa ye shes kyi phur pa)
- the enlightened mind phurba (Tib. byang chub sems kyi phur pa)
- the immeasurable compassion phurba (Tib. tshad med snying rje’i phur pa)
- the substantial phurba (Tib. ‘dus byas rdzas kyi phur pa or mtshan ma rdzas kyi phur pa)
References
- ↑ Source: oral teaching by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in Prapoutel; Khyentse Rinpoche is said to have based this list on a quote from Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.
- ↑ Khenpo Namdrol (1999), page 45.
Teachings given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 13 August 2018
Further Reading
- Khenpo Namdrol, Vajrakilaya (Dharmakosha, 1997 or Snow Lion: 1999), pages 45-48.