Sangchok Gyalpo

Magyu Sangchog Gyalpo is one of the most important Bon meditational deities. The deity Magyu is the yidam Sangchok Gyalpo, Supreme King of Secrets, who is wrathful in appearance, blue in color, with seven heads and sixteen arms holding sixteen skullcaps, each containing a heart. He embraces his consort the great queen Kyema Otso, Ocean of Light, who is red in colour, one face and two arms. The six khandro in the thangka are the guardians of the six paths of practice within the Mother Tantra cycle of teachings: Green / Method (Tummo and Five Elements Practice); Blue / Dream (Dream Yoga); Red / Fear (Chöd Practice); Yellow / Transference (Phowa); White / Sleep (Sleep Yoga); and Brown / Death (Bardo Practice).

Sangchog Gyalpo is wrathful in appearance, blue in colour, with seven heads and sixteen arms holding sixteen skullcups and each containing a heart. Embracing the consort Kyema Marmo, red in colour, one face and two arms, Sangchog Gyalpo stands with the right legs straight and the left bent. The human lineage of Sangchog Gyalpo is believed to have started with the Tibetan teacher Zangsa Ringtsun.