Item: Tara (Buddhist Deity)

Tara, Accomplishing All Activities.

At the top center is Amitabha Buddha. Surrounding the central figure of Tara are eight smaller figures of Tara protecting from the eight fears.

"...Great Devi Tara, yellow in color, with eight faces, the main face yellow. The three right [faces] are black, green and blue. The three left [faces] are white, red and blue. The face above is smoke colored and fearful with three eyes. With sixteen hands, in the right are a sword, utpala, arrow, hook, stick, curved knife and a gesture of removing fear. [In the] left [hands] are a lasso along with a threatening gesture, skullcup, bow, katvanga, a Vajra together with a lasso, the head of Brahma, gems, and a vase. Wearing a garland of heads and adorned with ornaments, wreathed in sunlight. The right leg is straight [standing] atop Indra, Rudra, Brahma and Vishnu." (Sadhanamala & Drub Tab Gyatso).

Jeff Watt [8-2018. Added 5-2026]

Inscriptions and Identification of Deities

Top center- Buddha Shakyamuni

Top right - White Prajnaparamita (Sher phyin dkar mo)

Top left - Yellow Prajnaparamita

Center Main figure - Tara, All Accomplishing, Sixteen Arms and Eight Faces

Center Right Upper- Vajra Red Sarasvati

Center Right Lower- Prajnaparamita (sher phyin ma dkar mo phyag gnyis ma)

Below - Green Parnashvari (ri khrod ma ljang mo zhal gsum drugma)

Center Left Upper- Yellow Prajnaparamita Four Arms (lom gyon ma ser mo zhal gsum phyag drug ma)

Center Left Lower - White Prajnaparamita two arms

Below - Yellow Parnashavari, three faces six arms

Bottom Right - White Sarasvati (dbyangs can ma chen mo དབྱངས་ཅན་མ་ཆེན་མོ)

Bottom Center - Marici white, ten arms (‘od gzer can dkar mo phyg pcu pa འོད་གཟེར་ཅན་དཀར་མོ་ཕྱག་པཅུ་པ)

Bottom Left - Kalpoktam Marici (three faces, eight arms) (rtog pa las gsungs pa’i ‘od gzer can ma རྟོག་པ་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་འོད་གཟེར་ཅན་མ་)

Shinzo Shiratori 5-2025