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Often misunderstood or misinterpreted, tibetan demonology is tightly integrated into boudhism and the main local branches.
Nevertheless, the richness and scope of the still-know iconography is a living proof that it was the pre-boudhist Bön-Po tradition who gave birth to all those terrifying monsters.
Today considered as “angry” form of divinities and pure emptiness, they were previously fearsome demons and gods who ruled those mysterous heights of the planet.
Follow the monstrous line to the tibetan monsters picture gallery
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