This woven mandala (representation of a sacred realm) shows Yamantaka, the wrathful manifestion of the Bodhisattva Manjushri, as the central deity. This rich and complex mandala follows the practices and tenets of Tibetan Buddhism. Its subject suggest that it may have been made for an initiation ceremony. Alternately, it may have been meant to be housed or displayed in ancestral and portrait halls in temples connected with the Mongol imperial family.

In the lower corners of this mandala are two male (on the left side) and two female (on the right side opposite) donors. Identified by Tibetan inscriptions in the cartouche above their portraits, they are (from the left): Tugh Temur, great-great-grandson of Khubilai Khan, who reigned as Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan dynasty in China from 1328 to 1332; Khosila, elder brother of Tugh Temur, who reigned briefly in 1329 as Emperor Minzhong; and Budashri and Babusha, their respective spouses.