A ferocious dharmapala in yab-yum with its consort. The blue figure is a three-headed six-armed deity holding snakes, trisula, flaming sword, and kapala in his out stretched arms. He wears the animal skins and garland of severed heads that is usually found on dharmapalas. He and his pink consort are trampling several human forms on an orange lotus base which rests on a throne and multi-colored lotus base. Numerous forms of the Yidam’s retinueits retinue of the central deity are are painted within the painting. Orange flames engulf the central figures. Several deities and the monks are in the clouds at the top of the painting . The hats of the monks at the top of the painting indicate that this is a bonpo painting. It has similar compositional characteristics to plate 30 in The Bon religion of Tibet by Per Kvaerne 1995. Shambala Publications.
