A rare Ming bronze Guardian Palden Lhamo, the Goddess of Wealth, is seated sideways on a flayed human skin saddle, on a mule galloping above a pedestal of a sea of blood and body parts. Ferocious in a striking pose, the Dharmapala wears a skull crown with a crescent moon over her upswept hair. Her opened mouth is crunching on a corpse in its large fangs. Three glaring eyes are staring down at the skull cup in her left. Two human feet and a dangling solar disk are adorning her chest, with a long rosary string of human heads that symbolizes the conquest of evil. The figure is the Tibetan rendition of the Indian Goddess Shridevi. While as the Queen of Sri Lanka, she opposed the king's ritual practice of human sacrifice and consequently killed their son. Palden Lhamo is a tutelary goddess introduced to Tibet in the 10th century. Among the Eight Great Dharmapalas, she is the only female obstacle remover and guardians of Buddhist Dharma. The Goddess is the principle protectress of Tibet. The guardian deity of Dalai Lamas worshipped as the Auspicious Heavenly Mother on the 15th of the Ten Moon of the Tibetan calendar. She was worshipped as a protector of Imperial China from the 14th century to the early 1900s'. There are several illegible engraved characters on the mule's underside. The statue is sealed and consecrated with sanctimonious materials.