The Subjugation of Tibet describes how Padmasambhava, aided by Yeshe Tsogyal and armed with the phurba, tamed Tibet's hostile spirits — binding Pehar, Tsiu Marpo, Begtse, Dorje Legpa, Rahula, and Tseringma by oath as dharma protectors.
Vajrakilaya is the wrathful deity who embodies the phurba, the three-bladed ritual dagger made manifest as a dark blue heruka with three faces and six arms, his very name meaning 'Vajra Dagger' — the implement and the deity are inseparable.
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