Durdag (Dance of the Lord of the Cremation Grounds)

Protectors of the religion they live in the large cremation grounds situated on the external edges of the Mount Sumeru.

Costume: White short skirts, white boots and white skull masks.

On the external edges of a symbolic mandala where the assembly of the secret tantric deities are residing, there are eight large cremation grounds. The numerous protectors of the religion (Chhoechong) live here and are bounded by an oath. Among them are the lords of the Cremation Grounds who protect these areas. Because of the promise, they had accepted before and from which they cannot be diverted even for one instant, these lords render powerless the assembly of demonic enemies who have violated their oath of not harming the doctrine. They offer them to the gods of the mandala and they reduce them to a mere name.