Sangpo Bumtri
Bön · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Sangpo Bumtri (Sangs-po 'bum-khri) is 'the Procreator' among the Four Transcendent Lords of the Bön pantheon, together with Satrig Ersang, Shenlha Ökar and the teacher Tönpa Shenrab. In Bön cosmogonic narratives he stands at the origin of the world of existence as the primordial ancestor and lord of created beings, a figure connected with the archaic Tibetan creator known in cosmogonic texts studied by Samten Karmay.
Domains
- creation
- ancestry
Powers
- to bring forth living beings and the ordered world of existence
Relations
- companion: Satrig ErsangFellow member of the Four Transcendent Lords.Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
- companion: Shenlha ÖkarFellow member of the Four Transcendent Lords.Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary)
Sources
- Sangpo Bumtri is 'the Procreator' of the Four Transcendent Lords, the primordial divine ancestor from whom living beings arise in Bön cosmogony.: Per Kværne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, 1995 (secondary); Samten G. Karmay, The Arrow and the Spindle: Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet, 1998 (secondary)