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[[Image:Lama Gonpo Phurba.jpg|thumb|350px|The '''Namchak Ter Phurba''' discovered by [[Nyang Ral Nyima Özer]], which belonged to [[Gönpo Tseten Rinpoche]]]]'''Phurba''' ([[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]]. | [[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== | ==Four Phurbas== | ||
According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas: | According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas: | ||
# | #Tib. བསྐྱེད་རིམ་སྲིད་པའི་ཕུར་པ་, 'kyérim sipé phurba'': the [[kyérim]], or generative phase of the phurba of existence. | ||
#''tsenma dzé kyi phurba'': the actual material phurba | #Tib. མཚན་མ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཕུར་པ་, ''tsenma dzé kyi phurba'': the actual material phurba | ||
#''dzogrim changsem phurba'': the [[dzogrim]] or dissolution phase, of the phurba of [[bodhichitta]]. | #Tib. རྫོགས་རིམ་'བྱང་སེམས་ཕུར་པ་, 'dzogrim changsem phurba'': the [[dzogrim]] or dissolution phase, of the phurba of [[bodhichitta]]. | ||
#''rigpa dön gyi phurba'': the [[absolute]] phurba of [[rigpa]]. | #Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཕུར་པ་, ''rigpa dön gyi phurba'': the [[absolute]] phurba of [[rigpa]]. | ||
[[Category:Key Terms]] | [[Category:Key Terms]] | ||
[[Category:Hand Implements]] | [[Category:Hand Implements]] | ||
Revision as of 02:51, 3 February 2011
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
According to the tradition of Vajrakilaya, there are four phurbas:
- Tib. བསྐྱེད་རིམ་སྲིད་པའི་ཕུར་པ་, 'kyérim sipé phurba: the kyérim, or generative phase of the phurba of existence.
- Tib. མཚན་མ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ཕུར་པ་, tsenma dzé kyi phurba: the actual material phurba
- Tib. རྫོགས་རིམ་'བྱང་སེམས་ཕུར་པ་, 'dzogrim changsem phurba: the dzogrim or dissolution phase, of the phurba of bodhichitta.
- Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་ཕུར་པ་, rigpa dön gyi phurba: the absolute phurba of rigpa.