Tsi'u Marpo: the red 'tsen' daemon, principal worldly protector of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.

Wrathful with one face and two hands he holds a spear upraised in the right and a heart in the left held to the mouth. Riding atop a pink horse he is accompanied by his six brothers.

Two lineage lamas are seated at the top accompanied by three wrathful meditational deities. Protectors occupy the foreground.

Sanggye Lingpa (1340-1396) discovered the ?Middling Collection of Precepts, the Gathering of the Guru?s Intention? (Tibetan: ka du bar wa la ma gong pa du pa) in the great cave of Puri Rinchen Barwa in the year 1364.

Jeff Watt 11-2000