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.”

This hammer has a half fashioned from Finnish oak. The terminal is a bring nine-pronged wrathful vajra (rDo rJe / རྡོ་རྗེ་). The hammer head 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.