Dorje designed Hand carved Tibetan Wooden Phurba Ritual kila dagger Antique Tribal Phurbu Tantric kilaya Buddhist vintage wood Art orders Nepal
Description of Item
Length of Phurba : 12.28" Inches / 31.2 Cms
Width of Phurba : 1.77" Inches / 4.5 Cms
Weight of Phurba : 160 Gms / 0.352 Lbs
Product Code : PHUR1949
In Sanskrit, it is called the kilaya or the kila, and in Tibetan, it is called the phurba, phurpa.
The phurba is also called 'the magic dagger'. 'Phur' is translated from the Sanskrit 'kila' and it means peg or nail. Padmasambhava is widely assumed to have invented the phurba. Padmasambhava used the phurpa to consecrate the ground when he established the Samye monastery in the 8th century. The phurba is a three-sided stake that is used in Buddhist rituals. Because Tibet has always been a nomadic culture, the tent is an important part of Tibetan lives orders, and placing the tent pegs into the ground is always seen as sacrificing the ground.
Phurba / Phurpa / Phurbu is a weapon commonly held by the Wrathful Deities. Its history goes back to around 1000ce and was spread across the Himilayas and west into Mesopotamia and east into Indonesia. The one common physical feature is a long triangular/three-sided blade with serpents trailing down it, and the fancier ones developed handles of the heads of Makara dragons topped by an embedded vajra or lotus topped by a three-sided god's head. Tibetan Buddhism transformed the triple head into Padmasambhava in its three forms. Some older phurpas have the horse's head of the deity called Hayagriva. One original theory of how horses and phurpas became connected is that these horse-riding nomadic warriors kept their horses in place by a rope to a pen pounded into the ground, thus the phurba/dagger/peg. Most blades are iron with brass or copper or silver on the handle. But some of the older more practical phurbas are just carved of wood. In Nepal, a healer/exorcist/shaman must carve a wooden Forba as an initiation. These all-purpose daggers could be stuck in the ground around a camp or as tent stakes to banish demons from the site. The Bonpo shamans of Tibet had their own “God of the Dart” known as Phur-ba'i-Lha.
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