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==Attributes==

[[File:Snow Lion, Rising Sun Tattoo.jpg|thumb|A Snow Lion tattoo]]

The Snow Lion is a [[tulku]] or personification of the primordial playfulness of [[ananda]] "joy, bliss" ({{bo|w=dga'}}), comparable to the western [[unicorn]]. Though paradoxical, the Snow Lion does not fly but their feet never touch the ground; their existence is a playful continuum ({{bo|w=rgyud}}) of leaping from mountain peak to mountain peak. The energetic potency (wisdom or [[shakti]]) of the Snow Lion is expressed in the attribute of the [[gankyil]] or "ananda-wheel" the Snow Lion keep in eternal play. The gankyil is the principal [[wikt:polyvalent|polyvalent]] symbol and teaching tool of all the doctrinal trinities of [[Dzogchen]] and is the energetic signature of the [[trikaya]]. The gankyil is the inner wheel of the [[Dharmacakra]] of the [[Ashtamangala]] path of [[Vajrayana]] [[Buddhism]].