Vajra Hammers

Dorje Çak-tho (rDo rJe lCag tho / རྡོ་རྗེ་ལྕག་ཐོ་ ) the Vajra Hammer of Dorje Legpa and Dorje Legma.

This vajra weapon was made (as a set of fifty) in Finland, from Finnish oak and Finnish iron. Ngak’chang Rinpoche said “In 1971, Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje introduced me to the idea that the Norse Gods were emanations of the Ma gZa Dor gSum — the three main protectors of the Nyingma Tradition — and that I should investigate their presence in Scandinavia. Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche said that Thor in particular was an emanation of Dam-çan Garwa’i Nakpo.”

Dam-çan Garwa’i Nakpo (dam can gar ba’i nag po / དམ་ཅན་གར་བ་ནག་པོ་#) the Oathbound Vajra Blacksmith, was a Bön protector in the TransHimalayan assembly of the mGon gNyen. ་He was restrained and re-directed by Guru Rinpoche in 8th century. ་Guru Rinpoche bound the transdimensional Blacksmith and others local beings by oath to protect Vajrayana.

Dam-çan Garwa’i Nakpo is depicted riding a storm goat with shaggy iron fur. The goat has entwined horns symbolising existence and nonexistence as the ornaments of the nondual state. and the His upraised right hand holds a vajra hammer and his outstretched left hand holds the vajra bellows—made of Siberian tiger hide—which arouses the innate furnace of transformation.

Damçan Garwa’i Nakpo is often seen as the main attendant of the protector Dorje Legpa (rDo rJe legs pa / རྡོ་རྗེ་ལེགས་པ་ / Vajra Sadhu). He is also seen as an independent protector in his own right.

In the Aro gTér Damçan Garwa’i Nakpo is one of the manifestations of Dorje Legpa rather than a different being — and so he is often simply called Dorje Legpa.

Damçan Garwa’i Nakpo is accompanied by an assortment of black retinue figures: wolves, foxes, bears, wolverines, and ravens, These animals function as factotum messengers and communicative sensory amanuenses.

This hammer has a haft fashioned from Finnish oak. The terminal is a brass nine-pronged wrathful vajra (rDo rJe / རྡོ་རྗེ་). The hammerhead is an exact copy—in iron—of a Neolithic hammerhead in the Helsinki museum.

The hammerhead has been ‘case-colour hardened’ — which provides the ‘dark rainbow’ appearance.

Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje asked Ngak’chang Rinpoche to research the protectors in the Western world and fortunately, Ngak’chang Rinpoche had a great interest in Vikings when he was a boy. He therefore found it a simple matter to find references for Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche — who pronounced Thor to be a manifestation of Dorje Legpa.

In Norse visionary revelation, Mjölnir (Mjǫllnir) is the hammer of Thor, the protector associated with thunder.

Mjölnir is a weapon of such power that it is capable of leveling mountains. It was made by the dwarven brothers Eitri and Brokkr, and its short handle is due to the untimely curtailment of its fabrication.