Pehar Gyalpo

A gyalpo spirit subdued by Padmasambhava and installed as chief guardian of Samyé; regarded as leader of the worldly Dharma-protectors and the deity associated with the Nechung state oracle of Tibet. Originally connected with the Bhata Hor.

Domains

• worldly protector class
• kingship of the gyalpo spirits

Powers

• Guard the monastery of Samyé
• Speak through the Nechung state oracle
• Manifest as five aspects of body, speech, mind, quality, activity

Epithets

• རྒྱལ་པོ་པེ་ཧར tibetan · rGyal-po Pe-har'King Pehar' — chief of the gyalpo class of Dharma-protectorsTibetan protector liturgies; Nechung oracle tradition (secondary)
• རྒྱལ་ཆེན tibetan · rGyal-chen'Great King' — his honorific as guardian installed at SamyéPadmasambhava hagiography; Samyé monastery tradition (secondary)
• རྒྱལ་པོ་སྐུ་ལྔ Tibetan · Gyalpo Ku-nga · cultthe King of the Five BodiesR. de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons of Tibet (1956) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Tibetan Buddhist protector-deity literature; Nechung Oracle tradition (secondary)