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'''Pehar''' (Tib. པེ་ཧར་, [[Wyl.]] ''pe har''), the leader of the [[gyalpo]], is the spirit channeled by the [[Nechung Oracle]].  
'''Pehar''' (Tib. པེ་ཧར་, [[Wyl.]] ''pe har''). In order to protect Samye from any danger [[Guru Rinpoche]], entrusted the king of the [[gyalpo]] spirits, Pehar with the task of guarding Samye. Pehar is also the spirit channeled by the [[Nechung Oracle]].  


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 09:35, 22 October 2016

Pehar (Tib. པེ་ཧར་, Wyl. pe har). In order to protect Samye from any danger Guru Rinpoche, entrusted the king of the gyalpo spirits, Pehar with the task of guarding Samye. Pehar is also the spirit channeled by the Nechung Oracle.

Further Reading

  • Yeshe, Tsogyal, The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava, Vol. I & II, (Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1978): 391 – 392.
  • Yeshe Tsogyal, The Lotus-born: the life story of Padmasambhava, (Boston: Shambhala, 1999): 128 – 135.
  • Dan Martin, "The Star King and the Four Children of Pehar: Popular Religious Movements of 11th- to 12th-Century Tibet", Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. XLIX: 1-2 (1996)
  • Lin Shen-Yu: “Pehar: A Historical Survey” in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 19, 2010 Available online here

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