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'''[[Nyenchen Tanglha]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''[[gnyan chen thang lha]]'') is the name given both to a 700-mile-long mountain range of Northern Tibet, and to the [[Dharma Protectors|protector deity]] associated with it, who was bound under oath by [[Guru Padmasambhava]] when [[Buddhism]] was first established in [[Tibet]]. | '''[[Nyenchen Tanglha]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''[[gnyan chen thang lha]]'') is the name given both to a 700-mile-long mountain range of Northern Tibet, and to the [[Dharma Protectors|protector deity]] associated with it, who was bound under oath by [[Guru Padmasambhava]] when [[Buddhism]] was first established in [[Tibet]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:01, 8 July 2014
Nyenchen Tanglha towers over a frozen Lake Namtso in Central Tibet photo courtesy of Matthew Pistono
Nyenchen Tanglha (Wyl. gnyan chen thang lha) is the name given both to a 700-mile-long mountain range of Northern Tibet, and to the protector deity associated with it, who was bound under oath by Guru Padmasambhava when Buddhism was first established in Tibet.
Further Reading
- Richard J. Kohn, 'A Prayer to the God of the Plain' in Donald S. Lopez (ed.) Religions of Tibet in Practice, Princeton University Press, 1997
