Purba, small, with its stand

Size: height 15cm

This Purba is a very beautiful handmade item from Nepal.

A Phurba is a short, three-bladed dagger, often topped with a dorje, used particularly in tantric rituals.

Its symbolism is very powerful, and it is considered a kind of "magic dagger" capable of taming and defeating the most terrible demons.

The term phurba is mainly used in central Tibet, while in the Kham, Amdo, and Ladakh regions, it is called phurbu. From an allegorical point of view, the phurba represents the direct methods that allow the practitioner to cut all ties and obstacles that hinder the path to inner liberation.

In particular, the phurba is believed to be the symbol of those meditative techniques that help break the knots of ignorance caused by the false impressions of the ego.