A Thangka Depicting Sri Devi, Tibet, 19th Century

Property of the Bothwell Family Collection

A Thangka Depicting Sri Devi

Tibet, 19th Century 

13⅛ by 9⅝ in. (33.3 by 24.5 cm)

the wrathful female Tantric deity with bared fangs thrashing down on a human corpse, wearing a five-skull diadem in a halo of flaming hair, holding a kapala in her left hand and club surmounted with a vajra in her right, seated on a mule and surrounded by two lamas in the upper corners, with a host of wrathful deities seated below

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13707.