Traduntse is one of the border taming temples founded by Songtsen Gampo in the seventh century. The temple was established to suppress the mythical supine demoness that represents the Tibetan landscape. It is located in present-day Drongpa county in western Tibet.
Gyurme Dorje. 2009. Tibet Handbook. Bath: Footprint, p. 384.
Sørensen, Per K., and Guntram Hazod. 2005. Thundering Falcon: An Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-ʹbrug Tibetʹs First Buddhist Temple. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, p. 53 n.54,
The Demoness of Tibet is a close copy of a well-known image located in the Tibet Museum in Lhasa. The landscape of Tibet is shown as the mythical demoness of Tibetan legend. Important Buddhist temples and monasteries are located across her body, spanning from the Ngari region in the west to Kham in the east.
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