尸陀林主，又称尸林主、寒林主，藏语音“度册逹波”，是西藏天葬场的主神，亦是與金刚瑜加母续有关的护法神，在藏传佛教中，墓地坟场同时也是重要的修行场所，尸陀林主护持独处尸林或坟地中的修行佛法者。尸林主，“状加一对男女骷髏鬼物，是尸林之神。（以上摘自“龘藏”）

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Shri Shmashana Adhipati, as a couple, are enlightened deities categorized as 'Wisdom protectors.' They are emanations of Chakrasamvara and related to the Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini cycles of tantra. The teachings, rituals and instructions for creating a painting are found in the text known as the Secret Wheel Tantra in eight chapters. 

It is important not to confuse the deity, Father & Mother, with the skeleton dancers found in the various systems of Tibetan religious Cham dance. Those skeleton dancers, sometimes categorized as having three types, are unrelated to the protector deity. The skeleton figures, representing worldly spirits, in Tibetan dance are often seen as jesters or servants for other minor worldly gods such as Yama. These Cham dancing skeletons, like the other characters found in dance such as the deer and yak headed servants of Yama, are generally only found in narrative vignettes if found at all in Tibetan paintings. The most common dance represented in painting is generally known descriptively as the Black Hat Dance, and specifically understood to be the Vajrakilaya Cham dance. There will of course be images or random skeletons found in wrathful deity paintings or in the many depictions of the charnal grounds where the relevant Sanskrit and Tibetan texts explicitly state that skeletons are found in cemeteries.

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