The powerful dharmapala, Ekajati

Although Dokhachu Gonpa is associated with two great historical figures, Terton Drukda Dorji and Lam Thinley Jamtsho, Dokhachu is chiefly known as the abode of yidham Ekajati, who is also known by another name here - Aum Kangchikma (one legged lady).
She is one of the three principal deities of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. She is represented in iconography as having one strand of hair, one eye, one fang, one leg, one arm, and one breast. Legend has it that one of her eyes was pierced by Guru Padmasambhava to enable her to see better with one eye, and help him suppress the evils and demons. Another belief is that she was on the verge of dissolving her body through intense meditation, before being stopped by her celestial teacher, Buddha Akshobaya (Sangye Mithrupa in Dzongkha: མི་བསྐྱོད་པ), so that she remains a bodhisattva and avoids entering into Nirvana.
Mamo Ekajati, as she is also known by, is one of the three main protectors of Nyingma school, collectively known as Ma Za Dam Sum. The other two being Za Rahula and Damchen Dorje Legpa.
Ekajati is a Sanskrit word to mean “one” (eka) hair (jati). She has many names and forms. As the Yidham of Terton Drukdra Dorji she is known as Aum Kangchima (One-legged Lady). This is how she is referred to here. As the protector of Peling tradition, she is worshipped as Aum Ngagsum (Lady Protectors of the Mantras). In another belief, she is the second eldest of the Six Ekajati sisters where Aum Jomo is the eldest and Aum Zinchen Wangmo is the youngest.

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