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Tashi Delek! Thank you for being here!
The representation you see at your right is Draglha Gonpo, a lokapala, a protector of the teaching and also of the nation. Lokapalas are for the most part deities from the pre-Buddhist Bön tradition of Tibet that have been transformed by the Buddhist outlook. They are usually depicted riding a horse, wearing a suit of armor and bearing suitable attributes such as various weapons, pennons and banners, wish-fulfilling gems in a gold dish, lassos, etc. They are regarded by Buddhism as aspects of the national ego transmuted into destroyers of frivolous activities, unacceptable to the teaching.
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