The banner honours Pañjaranātha (in Tibetan, Gonpo Gur). Pañjaranātha is one of the most important aspects of Mahākāla (a category of Tantric Buddhist deity), propitiated (appeased) above all in the protector chapels of the Sakyapa order. Along the top edge of the banner, three flayed human hides are depicted with the head and arms hanging downwards. Interspersed between them are various human viscera and eyes on stalks. A garland of entrails divides this part of the banner from the main section below, where an ornate blue tent symbolises the black head of Pañjaranātha, flanked by two disk-shaped earrings and surmounted by a crown of five skulls, from each of which protrudes a wish-fulfilling jewel.