Tara: Non-standard Sculpture - Added
The sculptural examples in this gallery are believed by the museums and private collections in which they reside, based on iconography, to be the female Buddha Tara. The two most common forms of Tara are the Green and the White followed by the Eight Fears and Twenty-one Taras. Those forms are the general models used for identifying female sculptural figures as Tara. What is unusual about the forms in this gallery are their non-standard hand gestures or leg postures which do not conform to the well known iconography of the Green or White Tara. The examples are also not likely to be part of a larger set such as the Eight or Twenty-one. Is it even possible to positively identify each example as a form of Tara?