The phurba, also known as the phurpa (Sanskrit: kila), serves as a symbolic instrument, its triple-edged blade designed to metaphorically consume the three poisons of ignorance, greed, and delusion, which hinder spiritual progress.
The lower blade of the Phurba represents "skilful means" or method, while its upper handle symbolizes wisdom. With its fiery triangular shape and vajra essence, the Phurba embodies the realization of emptiness through a vajra-wrath that both burns and cleaves through the shackles of hatred. Emerging from the open mouth of a Makara, a creature half-terrestrial and half-aquatic, the head of the Makara signifies the formidable power and unwavering determination of the phurba as an indestructible weapon.
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