Sengdongma, the Lion-faced Dakini is a female Dharma Protector regarded as a wrathful emanation of Guru Rinpoche / Padmasambhava.

Sengdongma’s practice is crucially important for our well-being. She is excellent for clearing obstacles of the most pervasive and malignant kind.Sengdongma has one face and two arms, and her body is dark blue in colour. Her wrathful lion face is white and slightly turned to the right. Her right hand holds aloft a ritual chopper and her left holds a white skullcup filled with blood to her heart. She carries a khatvanga staff in the crook of her left hand.

She is adorned with a tiara of five skulls, bone ornaments, a necklace of fifty freshly severed heads and wears a tiger skin skirt. She stands on her left leg with her right leg drawn up in a dancing posture in the middle of a blazing fire of pristine awareness.Lion-faced Dakini!

Because of the force and power of the recitation of Your Mantra,

Let enemies who torment us teachers, pupils and attendants,

hindering spirits who harm us, obstructive conditions, and in short,

every enduring inauspiciousness, be turned back!

Host of blazing wrathful females!

Smash into dust-motes the body and speech

Of all the nature of hindering foes,

And release their consciousness in Dharma-Dhatu!

Through recitation of Your mantra,

Let me quell all injury,

Achieve my aims just as I wish,

And spread the Doctrine in teaching and practice!