Buddhist Deity: Tara Iconography

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Tara Main Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description:
--- Introduction: Three Points
- Six Categories of Form:
--- Green
--- White
--- Red
--- Eight Fears
--- Twenty-one
--- Miscellaneous
- Female Imagery Introduction
- Confusions: Sherab Chamma, Lakshmi
- Others...

Videos:
- All Tara Videos
- Tara Introduction: Three Points

Specific Subjects:
- Three Points
- Number Sets
- Forms (Textual)
- Compendium Texts
- Compendium Paintings
- Mandala Paintings
- Wealth Deities
- Standing (Sculpture)
- Non-standard (Sculpture)
- Relaxed Posture (Sculpture)
- Repeated Figure Paintings
- Wrathful Tara (Various Forms)
- Confusions
- Others...

Outline Pages:
- General Outline Page
- Green Tara Outline
- White Tara Outline
- Red Tara Outline
- Twenty-one Taras Outline Page
- Eight Fears Outline Page

The most common forms of Tara are the green which is considered special for all types of activities, white for longevity and red for power. The different forms of Tara come in all colours, numbers of faces, arms and legs, peaceful, semi-peaceful and wrathful. There are simple meditational forms representing a single figure and then there are complex forms with large numbers of retinue figures filling all types of mandala configurations. There are likely to be close to two hundred different meditational forms of Tara.

Jeff Watt [updated 4-2017, 3-2020]

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).