Padmasambhava accomplished the Vajrakilaya sadhana at the Yangleshö cave in Nepal, attaining mastery over the wrathful phurba deity and gaining the power to pierce and destroy all obstacles — the very force he would unleash to tame the spirits of Tibet.
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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