Snarling
and roaring with a gaping large mouth on a white lion face, she
stands fierce and menacing with two hands, dark blue in color, with
protruding fangs, curled tongue, two large round eyes and dark green
flowing hair.
The right hand holds aloft a curved flaying knife with a gold vajra
handle. The left clutches to the heart a white skullcup filled with
blood. Adorned with a crown of five skulls, bone necklace and gold
ornaments she wears a green silk scarf and a barely discernable
tiger skin skirt. In a dancing posture with the left leg extended
and the right drawn up she stands atop a red corpse seat, sun disc
and a pink lotus surrounded by a circle of flame and smoke.
In the Sarma (new) Schools the dakini Simhamukha is a tutelary deity
arising out of the Cakrasamvara cycle of Tantras and belongs to
the anuttarayoga 'wisdom' classification. The Sarma tradition Simhamukha
is unrelated to the deity of the same name and appearance in the
Nyingma 'Terma' (treasure) traditions. In that tradition, of the
many forms of Padmasambhava, she is regarded as the secret form
of Guru Rinpoche.
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