To protect the Buddhist religion and its institutions against adversaries, as well as to preserve the integrity of its teachings is a task assigned, in accordance with precepts common to the various sects of Tibetan Buddhism, to an important group of deities, best known under the name dharmapalas and dvarpalas. Yet the iconography of the deites worshipped by the Tibetans as protectors and guardians of the Buddhism belongs to the least known fields of the Tibetan ...
