Guru Dragphur (Wrathful Peg Teacher): fierce form of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava discovered as a terma by Padma Karpo.
Very wrathful in appearance, Guru Dragphur is red in colour, with one face and three round eyes, he has a gaping mouth with bared fangs and flaming hair rising upward. The right hand held aloft firmly grasps a gold vajra scepter and the left a black scorpion – both arms extended to the sides. Adorned with a crown of five skulls, gold earrings, bracelets, necklaces and a snake garland, he wears a string of human heads. An elephant hide covers the shoulders with a tiger skin wrapped about the waist. Without legs, the lower body is composed of a large black kila (phur ba), three edged peg, extending downward from the gaping mouth of a makara sea creature. Standing on a triangular base adorned with skulls, above a sun disc and lotus blossom, he is surrounded by the swirling flames of pristine awareness.
The mantra of Guru Dragphur
OM ARTSIK NERTSIK KILAYA HUM HRI KHROM PHAT