phurba mantra Sakkamuni 104 x 60 cm with

104 x 60 cm with brocade

the monastery

The butter lamp is traditionally kept lit day and night

Since recording her first professional album of Buddhist hymns with Grammy-winning guitarist Steve Tibbets in 1992

Pema Künsang

phurba mantra Sakkamuni 104 x 60 cm withThe phurba, or wrathful ritual dagger, represents wrathful male energy that liberates whatever needs to be liberated. The three sided blade of the dagger, that issues from the jaws of a Makara, cuts through the three poisons of hatred, ignorance, and clinging. The triangular shape represents the fire element, and the braided Naga tails embossed on each side of the blade issue from the Makaras mouth since the phurba is often used to ritually subdue