The major female dharma protector, Śrī Devī, rides a yellow mule across a sea of blood, accompanied by her attendants. Clutching a human corpse in her fanged teeth, she brandishes a vajra-topped club up in the sky with her right hand and holds a blood-filled skull cup in her left. The sun blazes from her navel, the moon adorns her crown and a peacock canopy floats above her head. A roaring snow lion leaps from her right earring and a poisonous snake darts from her left. She has sagging breasts and wears the characteristic bone and skin ornaments of wrathful deities. Her mule has a third eye on its rump which gazes into the future. From the cannibal-skin saddle hangs a bundle of red curses in the form of book, a bag of diseases, a pair of divination dice and a ball of variegated thread. These together with the tally stick scored with curses tucked into her waistband constitute her five magical weapons. At the front and rear of the mule are her two attendants, Makaravaktrā, the crocodile-headed ḍākinī who leads the mule and Siṃhavaktrā, the lion-headed ḍākinī who guards the rear. A hurricane emanates from her head and upon its winds ride the goddesses of the four seasons. Above is Sarasvatī, of whom Śrī Devī is considered to be an emanation, and beneath is Mahālakṣmī. Śrī Devī is further surrounded by her twelve attendants, all mounted on various animals. In the foreground are the Five Sisters of Long Life (T. bKra shis tshe ring mched lnga), Trashi Tseringma (T. bKra shis tshe ring ma), Ting gi Zhelzanma (T. mThing gi zhal bzang ma), Miyo Lobsanma (T. mi yo blo bzang ma), Chopen Drinzangma (T. Cod pan mgrin bzang ma) and Tekar Drozangma (T. gTad dkar ‘gro bzang ma). Śrī Devī, the ‘Glorious Goddess’ and the special protector of the Gelug tradition, is a wrathful manifestation of Tārā and is very popular in Mongolia.
