This will be a brief introduction to the use of the ‘Phurba’ otherwise known as a ‘Kilaya’ and the deity practices associated with it.
The origin of its use may be traced back to India, and the role of Padmasambhava in bringing the practices to Tibet and the Himalayan region generally. The Phurba is used both by Buddhists and Shamans in that region. There are various explanations of the form of the practices, but all seem to be wrathful protection against harmful spirits and the forms in which they may manifest. The act may be one of pinning or pegging or of directing the energy of the deity invited to enter with a pointing action.
The ‘Kila’ is an important element in the hands of other deities and may also form the lower part of their body to indicate that the deity practice encompasses Vajrakilaya.
BENEFITS OF THE Phurpa MANTRA:
1. Each single mantra recitation creates the actual Deity, also creates the Dakini
It is an offering to all the Buddhas and acts like creating an army to help all sentient beings.
2. The mantra is also an offering. This is an antidote to attachment and greed, as we give happily with faith and love. Natural phenomena arise through the power of such Bodhichitta.
3. The mantra is a source of blessings – as we think of the love for the deity our wisdom increases and our self-cherishing dissolves.
4. Compassion towards sentient beings increases and obscurations (our own and those of other sentient beings) decreases.
5. There is also the accomplishment of the deity – self disappears and you will attain all the qualities of the deity, the siddhi acomplishment. The love for the deity is always in our mind and the appears instantly to us. This love extends to all sentient beings and this also marks the accomplishment of the deity.
6. The mantra is enlightened activity. In acquiring the common siddhis we can perform to benefit others, such as healing or using our supernatural powers.
7. The mantra is the whole mandala, and so reveals the whole universe of the deity, and all appears to us as pure.
8. The mantra is a higher level offering similar to ganachakra. Our bodies contain hundreds of tiny beings and is the mandala of the deity so, for example, food then becomes an offering to ourselves as the deity.
9. Ultimately the meaning of the mantra is that it brings pure perception of objects and the nature of emptiness: form is emptiness and emptiness is form.
1. Each single mantra recitation creates the actual Deity, also creates the Dakini
It is an offering to all the Buddhas and acts like creating an army to help all sentient beings.
2. The mantra is also an offering. This is an antidote to attachment and greed, as we give happily with faith and love. Natural phenomena arise through the power of such Bodhichitta.
3. The mantra is a source of blessings – as we think of the love for the deity our wisdom increases and our self-cherishing dissolves.
4. Compassion towards sentient beings increases and obscurations (our own and those of other sentient beings) decreases.
5. There is also the accomplishment of the deity – self disappears and you will attain all the qualities of the deity, the siddhi acomplishment. The love for the deity is always in our mind and the appears instantly to us. This love extends to all sentient beings and this also marks the accomplishment of the deity.
6. The mantra is enlightened activity. In acquiring the common siddhis we can perform to benefit others, such as healing or using our supernatural powers.
7. The mantra is the whole mandala, and so reveals the whole universe of the deity, and all appears to us as pure.
8. The mantra is a higher level offering similar to ganachakra. Our bodies contain hundreds of tiny beings and is the mandala of the deity so, for example, food then becomes an offering to ourselves as the deity.
9. Ultimately the meaning of the mantra is that it brings pure perception of objects and the nature of emptiness: form is emptiness and emptiness is form.
Here are a few of Terma phurbas, followed by some very informative articles and ones are from Solu Khumbu region of Nepal .this terma is very old ,and from sakya Lineage.
