ííííLegend says that when Songtsan Gampo first built the Jokhang Temple, he transformed into 108 incarnations carpenters to help him. While Songtsan Gambo was carving a sphinx, Princess Kyridzun suddenly found 108 Songtsan Gampoí»s when she served tea. She was surprised and screamed, Songtsan Gampo was shocked and sawed out the nose of the sphinx, so the 108 sphinxes in the hall are all flat noses.