There are four great symbolic entities of Shambhala.  Chögyam Trungpa, ignorant of the real meaning of these symbolic entities, fancifully employed them as symbols of four virtues of a Shambhala Warrior as follows: 

One:   The First Dignitary: The Tiger

Trungpa assigns the Tiger the dignity meaning of Meekness to “Shambhala Warriors”.
 

Two:  The Second Dignitary: The Snow Lion

Trungpa assigns the Snow Lion the dignity meaning of Perkiness to          “Shambhala Warriors”.
 

Three: The Third Dignitary: The Garuda Bird

Trungpa assigns the Garuda Bird the dignity meaning of Outrageousness to “Shambhala Warriors”.
 

Four: The Fourth Dignitary: The Dragon

Trungpa assigns the Dragon the dignity meaning of Inscrutability to “Shambhala Warriors”.

These four “dignity meanings” are mostly just Chögyam Trungpa’s Tibetan bullshitting tendency, though they are no doubt useful magical virtues or attitudes to cultivate.  As useful psychological settings, they have similar characteristics to Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements of Toltec Wisdom, which is Miguel Ruiz’s parallel Mexican bullshitting, which was his way of capitalizing on the popularity of Carlos Castaneda books about Nagual Shamanism of the Toltecs.  What we are going to discuss right now is the real meaning of the Four Dignitaries of Shambhala.

The Four Dignitaries represent the four kinds of beings visiting or dwelling upon the Earth whom ordinary people cannot comprehend.  They are the kind of real entities that people are either afraid of or whom people deny the existence of.  Shambhala is thus itself an organizing principle for four types of superior beings who have to operate in an evasive, hidden way on the Earth because humanity cannot cope with their overt presence except under special and temporary circumstances. If you will keep all this in mind, you will benefit by meditating on the Four Dignitaries and learning to telepathically commune with them.

The First Dignitary: The Snow Lion.

The Snow Lion represents the Siddha, the fully developed or at least highly developed human being of Earth.  This human being is not immortal, but is supranormal, an Ultraterrestrial.
    

The Second Dignitary: The Tiger.

The Tiger represents the Immortal Siddha, a fully developed human being of Earth who has extreme longevity.  This being, like Guru Rimpoche Padma Sambhava is an Immortal Ultraterrestrial.
   

The Third Dignitary: The Dragon.

The Dragon or Reptilian represents any and all resident Aliens on Earth, usually in underground or undersea facilities.  These human beings are psychically developed with Siddhis like the Snow Lions, the human Siddhas, but they are physical and mortal Extraterrestrials, though with much longer lifespans than the short-lived human beings of Earth.  They are also called Nagas.
    

The Fourth Dignitary: The Garuda Bird.

The Garuda Bird, which includes what is sometimes called Mothman, is an Immortal Extraterrestrial, though some Tigers or even Snow Lions sometimes join the Garudas as El-people or Time-spanners, for the ability to personally leap across both Space and Time is a fundamental Siddhi of these beings.

Let’s now look carefully at the traditional term, Dakini.  Dakinis are in fact dragon-like as dignitary category, but represent actually any kind of Alien who interacts in some manner with a Siddha (or Snow Lion) on the Earth or sometimes with Immortals (or Tigers).  A Daka (male) or Dakini (female) can also represent an ex-Earthling, a Siddha who has worked enough Earth karma off and developed himself or herself to the point of being qualified to dwell and develop on other planets with extraterrestrial companions and sex-partners.  If you look carefully at the Indian Buddhist biographies of the Eighty-Four Siddhas, you will note that often they did not die, but instead were “transported” to the “Land of the Dakinis”.  These were (and are) literal physical transferences, emigrations, to other planets.  Shambhala thus acts as a hub or transference agency for these shifts of advanced people to better locations for their development.

Garuda Birds, immortal alien time-spanners, are no doubt the most “outrageous” or unbelievable for the pathetic ignorant people of the Earth.  The movie and the book of John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecy brings out graphically the extreme difficulties ordinary ignorant peoples of Earth have in their encounters with these kinds of superhuman beings.

Dragons, physical aliens, are also very difficult for ordinary Earth people in their ignorance and undeveloped state to deal with.  They do not seem to be able to receive and correlate the vast amount of factual cosmic information available on this interface.  Dragons, Aliens, are “inscrutable” as to why they are here and what they do.

Tigers, truly immortal human beings, like the Death-Defier, the “Tenant”, introduced to the world through Carlos Castaneda, are not comprehended very well even by Castaneda fans.  The same is true on the part of Tibetans in regard to Padma Sambhava or the Chinese in regard to the Taoist Immortals or the Hindus in regard to the Nine Naths or Immortal Masters.  Tigers, Immortals, are thus “meek” because they must blend into the “human jungle” and not attract too much attention to their personal physical body, which could prove destructive to it.  We see in the life of Padma Sambhava how the upset, insane normals repeatedly tried to kill both him and his consort.  Such confrontations can be quite violent and tiresome.

Snow Lions, Siddhas and Sarmounis, can arrange their interface with ordinary, insane and stupid people quite handily through the Mexican Sorcery technique of Stalking or what the Sufis call Rend, cleverness.  But if they get carried away about getting worshipful followings of raw emotional Earth people, they can find themselves arrested in their development and dying a premature death, as we see with people like Carlos Castaneda, Chögyam Trungpa and Swami Muktananda.  Too much fucking of undeveloped and impure neurotic women can take down any Siddha or Snow Lion, who thus loses his “perkiness” or happy freedom of a promising hidden development.  This does not mean Siddhas should be celibates, but rather that they should keep their fucking with the Siddhanis, Lady-Siddhas or the Dakinis.  The minute they start getting into the neurotic and ignorant “volunteer” students like Amy Wallace that is the beginning of the end.  And look at how it then becomes a ludicrous scandal about “cult leaders who have sex with women followers”.  Muktananda was going through his secret tunnel to the ladies dorm at his ashram.  Swami Shyam was taken down by a Canadian lady disciple he was fucking.  Ignorant normals always want their “Spiritual Masters” to be sexually abstinent ascetics who do not even eat or need sleep.  But all such ascetics can lead you to is an empty life without sex, food or restful sleep.  It is simply learning how to like being dead so you won’t mind if your body dies.  Unfortunately, that doesn’t solve the real problem, so around and around we go.

Do meditate on the real Four Dignitaries of Shambhala.  It will help attune your aspiration and self-development to the organic development of the Universe.  It will also show you how stupid and ridiculous remaining an ignorant normal actually is.