What is the esotericism of the tiger in Buddhism?

Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.

The tiger is different, and the "Tiger Knights" know this, those jaguars of the Gnostic Movement, who like authentic felines of Revolutionary Psychology, have launched themselves against themselves, against their own psychological defects.

Undoubtedly, the dog and the tiger are esoterically associated in the same work.

The humanization of the tiger in Aztec Art is something that amazes every mystic.

In no way would it be possible to remove our psychic aggregates, those intimate defects that together constitute the Self, without the help of that divine Particle or interior Monad remembered by the axe, the sign of the lightning bolt that the Tiger-Man assumes with complete clarity.

Samael Aun Weor. Excerpt from the book: The Secret Doctrine of Anáhuac.

Answer from the Magazine "The Wisdom of the Being".

The symbolism of the tiger in Bhutan is interesting and transcendent. As an extraordinary parallel; The figure of the feline is also noticeable in Mexican cultures, such as the Mayan, Teotihuacan, and Tlaxcaltecan, where jaguars arise, among the Aztecs we have the tiger knights, the sacred puma in Bolivia and Peru, etc.

The feline, in the guise of a tiger, puma or jaguar; being an archetypal symbol of nature; It comes to represent our sexual instinct. Just like ancient American civilizations; The ancient Tibetans and Hindus did not ignore the importance of mastering our transcendental feline energies, so that through their impulse; to be able to gain degrees of consciousness and happiness in the higher worlds.

The Wisdom of Being Magazine 99, Chapter: "Buddhist Architecture."