This beautiful painting of Rakta Yamari, in an Eastern Tibetan Palpung Monastery painting style, has been updated with iconographic information for each of the figures. The most unusual figure is probaby the Vajra Sarasvati - top right corner - not commonly depicted in painting or sculpture. She is associated with the Yamari class of deities and found in the Yamari Tantras.
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