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Different mythical creatures are often featured within Tibetan mythology, ranging from creatures that resemble animals like the snow lion to spirits. These creatures are present in both religious mythology as well as national mythology and are often a result of the Tibetan environment or are shared amongst many countries as a result of the ...
Pages in category "Tibetan legendary creatures" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Druk; G.
Tibetan Buddhist mythology (11 P) ... Tibetan legendary creatures (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Tibetan mythology" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of ...
Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa (Tibetan: ཕ་སྤྲེལ་རྒན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་པ།, Wylie: pha sprel rgan byang chub sems pa) is a mythical monkey-ancestor of the Tibetan people. With King Gesar and Avalokiteśvara, of whom he is an incarnation, he is one of the most important figures in Tibetan culture. [1]
A ro-langs (Tibetan: རོ་ལང) is a zombie-like creature from Tibetan folklore. Ro is the word for corpse and Langs is the perfect tense of "to rise up", so Ro-Langs literally means "a risen corpse". A ro-langs is usually created by a gdon spirit, or a sorcerer. [1]
Backside of Tibetan 25 tam banknote, dated 1659 of the Tibetan Era (= 1913 CE).On the right, the four harmonious animals are represented. A popular scene often found as wall paintings in Tibetan religious buildings represents an elephant standing under a fruit tree carrying a monkey, a hare and a bird (usually a partridge, but sometimes a grouse, and in Bhutan a hornbill) on top of each other ...
Gyalpo (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་པོ་, Wylie: rgyal po), a word which simply means "king" in the Tibetic languages, in Tibetan mythology is used to refer to the Four Heavenly Kings (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི་) and especially to a class of spirits, both Buddhist and Bon, who may be either malevolent spirits or oath ...
Tibetan legendary creatures (1 C, 6 P) Tibetan mythology (3 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Sino-Tibetan mythology" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.