Dorje Drakden

THE CORPUS HELD PEHAR AND NOT THE VOICE PEHAR SPEAKS WITH. Pehar's four other emanations - Indra king of the mind, Buputra king of the body, Shingjachen king of merit and Dralla king of speech - are named in the source as a SET of five and are not ingested as four separate records; Dorje Drakden is ingested because the source gives him a station and an act of his own, which is the same test that admitted Dipamkara in lane 26 and kept the Twenty-Eight Buddhas out. TYPE deity IS THE NEAREST CATEGORY THIS SCHEMA HAS AND THE TRADITION DOES NOT USE IT. The vocabulary deity|numen|demigod|quartigod|scion|mortal has no category for a buddha, a bodhisattva or a yidam, and Vajrayana does not regard any of them as a god. Lane 26 escalated this; nothing is decided here.

Domains

• oracular possession
• protection of the dalai lamas
• dharma protection

Relations

• chief minister of: Pehar Gyalpo

Sources

• Reference treatment of Pehar Gyalpo and the Nechung oracle: Padmasambhava subdued the local guardian spirit Pehar Gyalpo and appointed him protector of Samye Monastery in the eighth century, a binding by sacred oath that compelled him to become head of all Buddhist protective spirits; Pehar leads a band of five gyalpo kings who are his own emanations - Indra on his elephant, king of the mind; Buputra on his white lioness, king of the body; Shingjachen on his black steed, king of merit; and Dralla on his black mule, king of speech; Dorje Drakden, known as Nechung Chogyong, is chief minister of Pehar's retinue and the Emissary of the Five Kings, principally an emanation of the King of Speech, and became the principal protector of the Dalai Lamas, manifesting through the Nechung Oracle; Pehar became protector of Nechung Monastery in the seventeenth century under the Fifth Dalai Lama.