Simhamukha

Skt., Lion-Faced

Simhamukha, aka Sinhamukhi, aka Simhavaktra, is regarded as one of the principal fierce manifestations of Padmasambhava. As such, she is connected with many ceremonies of the Dzogchen tradition. A fierce dakini, she is also one of the Bardo Thödol's Phramenma; a group of female deities most likely of Bön origin.

She is usually depicted as a maroon, smoke- or wine-colored lioness associated with the direction East.

As Simhavaktra, this goddess is also an attendant of Lha-Mo, in which case she is deoicted as carrying both a kapala and a kartrika.