Phurpa
Gilt copper alloy and gemstone
銅嵌寶石金剛橛
中國
西藏中部十八世紀佛教法器。金剛橛，又作普巴杵，或四橛。修法時結界之用，材質多為木或金屬，常見於喜馬拉雅山山域。
橛頂形似寶冠，上飾三面綠寶石雕成的面首，均戴寶石頭冠；間飾螺旋紋，紋路整齊細密；最頂端作三股金剛杵。橛中部作握柄，柄身為圓柱形，玉質，二柄端均以鐵質骷髏、貓眼石和綠松石形成五層環飾。柄根部以摩竭魚首銜接橛端，其上為圓形貓眼石，作一面具。橛端三棱為水晶質地，其中二棱刻有蘭札文六字大明咒「唵嘛呢叭彌吽」；另一棱為金剛童子像。此作雕工精緻，為少見的大型金剛橛。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 220.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Phurpa." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 220.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Phurpa" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:220.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Phurpa. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 220).
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