Machen Pomra

THE MOUNTAIN IS A PLACE AND IS NOT INGESTED; the deity of it is. The consorts the source says the mountain gods have are not named in the retrieved treatment and so are not manufactured here.

Domains

• sacred mountains
• territory and locality
• wealth

Relations

• of the tibetan mountain gods with: Nyenchen TanglhaNON-SYMMETRIC, written from this end only; Nyenchen Tanglha is a pre-existing record filed under the TIBETAN BÖN key. The edge crosses a tradition key because the source names the three mountain gods in one breath, which is exactly the evidence that the key boundary does not track the material.Reference treatment of the Tibetan mountain gods: Nyenchen Tanglha names both a 700-km mountain range of northern Tibet and the protector deity associated with it, who was bound under oath by Padmasambhava when Buddhism was first established in Tibet, the name gNyan-chen-thang-lha being read as 'the god of the grassland'; Yarlha Shampo, Machen Pomra and Nyenchen Tanglha are among the important Tibetan mountain deities and have consorts in the tradition; Yarlha Shampo is the ancestor god of the Yarlung kings, and tradition holds that the divine ancestor descended from the sky to its summit; Machen Pomra can appear in his aspect as a wealth deity, riding a white lion; among the chief focal points of Buddhist and Bon pilgrimage are Mount Kailash, Amnye Machen, Nyenpo Yurtse, Kawa Karpo, Zhara Lhatse, Dakpa Shelri, Bonri and Yarlha Shampo in Yarlung. (secondary)

Sources

• One of the important Tibetan mountain deities, who can appear in his aspect as a wealth deity riding a white lion; his mountain, Amnye Machen, is among the chief focal points of Buddhist and Bön pilgrimage.: Reference treatment of the Tibetan mountain gods: Nyenchen Tanglha names both a 700-km mountain range of northern Tibet and the protector deity associated with it, who was bound under oath by Padmasambhava when Buddhism was first established in Tibet, the name gNyan-chen-thang-lha being read as 'the god of the grassland'; Yarlha Shampo, Machen Pomra and Nyenchen Tanglha are among the important Tibetan mountain deities and have consorts in the tradition; Yarlha Shampo is the ancestor god of the Yarlung kings, and tradition holds that the divine ancestor descended from the sky to its summit; Machen Pomra can appear in his aspect as a wealth deity, riding a white lion; among the chief focal points of Buddhist and Bon pilgrimage are Mount Kailash, Amnye Machen, Nyenpo Yurtse, Kawa Karpo, Zhara Lhatse, Dakpa Shelri, Bonri and Yarlha Shampo in Yarlung. (secondary)