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Lot 410
Two Ceremonial Tibetan Buddhist Knives
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The first a solid cast copper phurba (8.5 in.); the second a partially gilt hooked knife, its iron blade emerging from the mouth of an elephant-dragon hybrid (8 in.)

Both knives are symbolic of ego destruction; the phurba's three-sided blade destroys one's ego by cutting through the present, past and future

$200 - 300