Let us look more deeply into the phenomenology of lion-riding. Be informed that in Ancient Tibet, the wonder-working Guru Rimpoche Padma Sambhava, a Vajrayana Buddhist Immortal Siddha, when he first entered the Ancient Kingdom of Tibet, which was then under the spiritual and psychic domination of non-Buddist Bön sorcerers, shamans, thus to sell Buddhism, impressively rode about Bhutan mounted on a pregnant tigress (an especially dangerous and unmanageable creature to handle). This was extremely impressive to the Tibetans, so he was given the additional name of Dorje Trolör as one of his "Eight Aspects".