This is an original hand-painted masterpiece, Machig Labdron, also known as Ahdron Chodron ( in Tibetan) Thangka Painting. She is one of the most prominent female masters and lineage holders in Buddhism. She is a reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal and the renowned 11th-century Tibetan tantric Buddhist master and yogini that originated several Tibetan lineages of the Vajrayana practice of Chöd. Machig Labdrön is "a radical synthesis of the Prajnaparamita tradition and tantra guru yoga that 'cuts' through the ego. She was unique in being both a woman and Tibetan, diverging from the traditional norm of males, Indian Buddhist masters. Her life is an inspiring story of a committed practitioner, at-times beggar woman, brilliant teacher, mother, and lineage founder.
Machig's biography begins with her previous life in which she was an Indian prince turned monk, named Mönlam Drup. Having achieved great spiritual and scholarly accomplishments at an early age,
Mönlam Drup was repeatedly told in visions to go to Tibet to help beings there. At twenty, he entered a cave where he left his body and merged his consciousness with a wrathful blue-black dakini, entering the womb of Machig's mother in Tibet.