24" Large Tibetan Buddhist Phurpa In Copper With Brass & Iron | Handmade | Buddhist Ritual Item

The Phurba serves a sacred role in the Highest Yoga Tantra practices and possesses the ability to bestow blessings while also serving as a tool for dispelling delusions.

Its blade, with its three sharp edges, embodies the concept of severing the three fundamental root poisons: ignorance, greed, and aggression. Taking on a fiery triangular form, it embodies the vajra's nature, signifying the realization of emptiness as a powerful vajra-wrath that incinerates and cuts through the flames of hatred. Emerging from the head of a Makara, a creature with both terrestrial and aquatic qualities, the Makara's head symbolizes the Phurba's fierce and unwavering might as an indestructible weapon. Additionally, pairs of coiling naga-serpents descend from the Makara's mouth within each of the three blade recesses.