Siṃhamukha, the Lion-headed Dakini: a wisdom dakini of the Dzogchen tradition. A fierce dakini with the head of a snow lion, she is naked symbolizing free of discursive thought. She is manifestation of Guhyajnana Dakini, teacher of Padmasambhava. Her main function is averting magical attacks.
The wisdom Dakini Simhamukha is with a body blue-black in colour, one face, two hands, three eyes, red, round and glaring; bared fangs and a curled tongue. The right hand holds aloft to the sky a curved-knife marked with a vajra. The left a blood filled skullcup to the heart, carrying a three-pointed khatvanga staff in the bend of the left elbow. Orange hair, eyebrows and beard flowing upwards, with five dry human heads as a crown and fifty wet, blood dripping, as a necklace. With five bone ornaments and a tiger skin as a lower garment; standing on the left leg with the right drawn-up, in the middle of a blazing fire of pristine awareness.
The mantra of Simhamukha
AH KA SA MA RA TSA SHA DA RA SA MA RA YA PHAT
is known as “the fierce mantra of fourteen letters that averts all magical attacks” amd can be pronounced in a reverse way during extremely wrathful rituals, it can also be written on the human body to create the so-called “vajra armor” (dorje gotrab) of the subtle body.