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2. Phurba - Wikipedia

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   The phurba (Tibetan: ཕུར་པ or ཕུར་བ, Wylie: phur pa or phur ba; alternate transliterations: phurpa, phurbu, purbha, or phurpu) [needs IPA] or kīla (Sanskrit Devanagari: कील; IAST: kīla) is a three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail-like ritual implement deeply rooted in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bön traditions.

3. Ghosts in Tibetan culture - Wikipedia

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   The phurba (Tibetan: ཕུར་བ, Sanskrit: kīla) is a ritual dagger used by a tantric practitioner to release an evil spirit from its suffering and guide it to a better rebirth. Such a spirit (ghost) is a being which lingers in confusion between different realms.

4. Gyalpo spirits - Wikipedia

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   Gyalpo (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་པོ་, Wylie: rgyal po), a word which simply means "king" in the Tibetic languages, in Tibetan mythology is used to refer to the Four Heavenly Kings (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི་) and especially to a class of spirits, both Buddhist and Bon, who may be either malevolent spirits or oath ...

5. Vajrakilaya - Wikipedia

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   Vajrakilaya is a significant Vajrayana deity who transmutes and transcends obstacles and obscurations. Padmasambhava achieved realisation through practicing Yangdag Heruka (Tibetan: yang dag he ru ka), [2] but only after combining it with the practice of Vajrakilaya to clean and clear obstacles and obscurations.

6. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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   Dagger of Rostam, a glittering dagger that Rostam used to behead the white daeva Div-e Sepid. ( Persian mythology ) Knife of Llawfrodedd the Horseman , Llawfrodedd Farchog (from marchog "the Horseman"), or Barfawc "the Bearded" in other manuscripts, is said to have owned a knife which would serve for a company of 24 men at the dinner table.

7. Kartika (knife) - Wikipedia

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   A kartika or drigug (Sanskrit: kartari; Tibetan: གྲི་གུག་, Wylie: gri-gug, [1] or kartrika in Nepal [2]) is a small, crescent-shaped, hand-held ritual flaying knife used in the tantric ceremonies of Vajrayana Buddhism. The kartari is said to be "one of the quintessential attributes of the wrathful Tantric deities."

8. A History of the Valyrian Steel Dagger, From 'Game of ... - AOL

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   We first saw this dagger way back in Season 1 of Game of Thrones, when it was wielded by an assassin who made an attempt on Bran Stark's life while he lay in a coma after Jaime Lannister pushed ...

9. Vajra - Wikipedia

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   In Buddhism, the vajra (Standard Tibetan: dorje) is the symbol of Vajrayana, one of the three major schools of Buddhism. Vajrayana is translated as "Thunderbolt Way" [17] or "Diamond Way" and can imply the thunderbolt experience of Buddhist enlightenment or bodhi. It also implies indestructibility, [18] just as diamonds are harder than other ...