“Барсыг номхруулсан Дугар зайсангийн домог” хийгээд “Бар хөтөлсөн монгол хүн”-ий зураг

Illustrations representing “The Legend of Dugar Zaisan who Tamed the Tiger” and “Mongolian Leading a Tiger”

Abstract

The origin of the image "The Mongolian man with a tiger" is related to the conflicting action where Mongolians had a major role in the conflict between the red and yellow sects of Buddhism in Tibet and helped to beat the enemy of the red sect followers and to develop the yellow sect side.

As the tiger is the totem of the red scale of the Buddhism the image had been traditionally created to show the Mongolian man training a wild tiger. Further the image and the legends of Dugar zaisan spread reflecting their own unique psychological aspects the land.