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'''Phurba''' ([[Wyl.]] ''phur pa''; Skt. ''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]].


==Four Phurbas==
==Subdivisions==
According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are '''four phurbas'''.


According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas:
One way to enumerate them is:<ref>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]].</ref>
#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'')


#''kyérim sipé phurba'': the [[kyérim]], or generative phase of the phurba of existence.
Alternatively<ref>[[Khenpo Namdrol]] (1999), page 45.</ref>:
#''tsenma dzé kyi phurba'': the actual material phurba
#the wisdom awareness phurba (Wyl. ''rig pa ye shes kyi phur pa'')
#''dzogrim changsem phurba'': the [[dzogrim]] or dissolution phase, of the phurba of [[bodhichitta]].
#the enlightened mind phurba (Wyl. ''byang chub sems kyi phur pa'')
#''rigpa dön gyi phurba'': the [[absolute]] phurba of [[rigpa]].
#the immeasurable compassion phurba (Wyl. ''tshad med snying rje’i phur pa'')
#the substantial phurba (Wyl. ''‘dus byas rdzas kyi phur pa'' or ''mtshan ma rdzas kyi phur pa'')


==References==
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[[Category:Key Terms]]
==Teachings given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 13-14 August 2018
 
==Further Reading==
*[[Khenpo Namdrol]], ''Vajrakilaya'' (Dharmakosha, 1997 or Snow Lion: 1999), pages 45-48.
 
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[[Category:Vajrakilaya]]
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[[Category:Hand Implements]]

Latest revision as of 09:15, 14 August 2018

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.

Subdivisions

According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas.

One way to enumerate them is:[1]

  1. the kyérim, or generative phase, of the phurba of existence (Tib. བསྐྱེད་རིམ་སྲིད་པའི་ཕུར་པ་, kyérim sipé phurba)
  2. the actual material phurba (Tib. མཚན་མ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཕུར་པ་, tsenma dzé kyi phurba)
  3. the dzogrim, or dissolution phase, of the phurba of bodhichitta (Tib. རྫོགས་རིམ་བྱང་སེམས་ཕུར་པ་, dzogrim changsem phurba)
  4. the absolute phurba of rigpa (Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཕུར་པ་, rigpa dön gyi phurba)

Alternatively[2]:

  1. the wisdom awareness phurba (Wyl. rig pa ye shes kyi phur pa)
  2. the enlightened mind phurba (Wyl. byang chub sems kyi phur pa)
  3. the immeasurable compassion phurba (Wyl. tshad med snying rje’i phur pa)
  4. the substantial phurba (Wyl. ‘dus byas rdzas kyi phur pa or mtshan ma rdzas kyi phur pa)

References

  1. 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.
  2. Khenpo Namdrol (1999), page 45.

Teachings given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading

  • Khenpo Namdrol, Vajrakilaya (Dharmakosha, 1997 or Snow Lion: 1999), pages 45-48.