Fu Dog – Day 6

This Fu Dog is female (recognizable due to her paw on a Fu Dog cub) and is the third female Fu Dog presented that is located in Beijing China at the Forbidden City.



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Did you know that Fu Dogs are also called Guardian Lions? It’s because the Asian lion (the lion portion of a Fu Dog) figures prominently in Buddhist history-and-lore in India (home of the Asian Lion) as being a Stupa (a Stupa is a dome shaped shrine) guardian; that role-interpretation (in addition to many of the Asian lion's physical features) was perpetuated in most early Fu Dog variations.