An antique Tibetan door once belonging to an offering cabinet or tantric torgam. The door is painted with a ferocious scene of a wrathful being holding a knife in one hand. In the background, a figure is being disemboweled by wild animals. Various other body parts and auspicious objects decorate the negative space. The painting combines tantric imagery with wrathful iconography and is meant to strike fear into hindrances while assuring divine protection to practitioners.

Age: 18th to 19th century CE.

Dimensions: 64 1/2" high x 28" wide