This composition is a composite of different motifs found in Tibetan painting.  I conceived of the composition intuitively as I worked, starting with the panel at the left, which depicts the theme of a monkey handing down a fruit to another monkey, which I found in a depiction of the Arhat Nagasena.  Then, expanding the landscape to the right, I added a peacock.  For the third panel, I added the tiger threatening the peacock.  For the fourth panel, I reversed an image of the Mahasiddha Shavaripa so as to have his bow and arrow pointed at the tiger.  Overlooking the whole are the two Taras.