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Fine Tibetan Phurba, three-sided blade leading up to a…
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Fine Tibetan Phurba, three-sided blade leading up to a large-headed dorje baring teeth and with a coiffure of skulls. A smaller head sits at the top. 18th century. Height 23 cm, width 3 cm. *The phurba is a Tibetan three-sided ritual implement associated with Tibetan Buddhism. The Sanskrit term for phurba is kilaya which means 'to nail down', as well as 'to bind'. As a ritual implement used by high Tantric initiates, the phurba is employed to hold the negative thought-forms or obscurations of demons in place in order that the mindstream is redirected and inherent obscurations transmuted. This is a formidable 19th-century bronze phurba. The phurba symbolises the overcoming or cutting through of the three root poisons of ignorance, desire and hatred
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