33 Paintings Outside Cave Of The Female Yak Horns Dirapuk Gompa Lion-Faced Goddess Dakini Simhamukha Senge Dongma, Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche, Milarepa, Marpa, Shangpa Karpo, Shri Devi Palden Lhamo [33 of 72]
At the back of the Dirapuk Gompa is the cave of the female yak horns. Murals surround the entrance including the lion-faced-goddess Dakini Simhamukha (Tib. Senge Dongma). The face is a white lion with three round orange eyes blazing fiercely with a gaping mouth, and hair flowing upward. The right hand holds upraised a curved knife to the sky, left a skullcup of blood to the heart, carrying a khatvanga staff tipped with a trident in the bend of the elbow supported against the shoulder. Above to the left is Buddha, then Chakrasamvara (Tib. Demchog) in yab-yum with Vajrayogini (Tib. Dorje Phagmo), Padmasambhava (Tib. Guru Rinpoche), Milarepa holding his hand to his ear, Milarepa’s teacher Marpa, At the lower left is the worldly protector Shangpa Karpo, white, with one face and two hands holding a lance in the right and a bowl of jewels in the left; riding a white horse. I’m not sure who the figure is to the right of lion-faced goddess. He is white with one face and two hands holding upraised in the right a riding whip and in the left a spear with a red banner. The final figure to the lower right is Shri Devi (Tib. Palden Lhamo), dark blue in colour, riding side saddle on a white mule with a sword in her upper right, a skullcup in her lower right, and khatvanga in her first right hand and another staff in her far right hand. She has a sun and moon disc at her waist.