Item: Tara (Buddhist Deity) - (Samaya Yogini)

Samaya Tara Yogini (Tibetan: dam tsig drol ma nal jor ma): from the mandala of twenty-five deities from the Sanskrit root text Samajaparamarthasarvakaramodaya-nama-tarayoginitantraraja and the samajaparamarthasarvakarmodaya-uttaratantraraja [Toh 448, 449].

Video: HAR #48246 (HAR on Patreon [16 mi.])

Dark green in colour, semi-peaceful and semi-wrathful, Samaya Tara Yogini has one face, three eyes and eight hands. The four right hands hold an arrow tipped with a utpala flower, a double-sided damaru (hand drum) and curved knife. The lowest hand with the palm facing outward performs the gesture of generosity. The left hands hold a blue lotus blossom with the stem held to the heart, a bow constructed of utpala flowers, a trident and blood filled skullcup. An ornate katvanga staff rests against the left shoulder. Adorned with a tiara of five skulls, gold earrings, bracelets and anklets of bone, she wears a necklace of fifty freshly severed heads and a lower garment of tiger skin. On a sun disc and lotus seat pressing down on various figures representing obstacles and hindrances, she sits in a relaxed manner surrounded by the brightly burning stylized flames of the fires of pristine awareness. The surrounding halo is very detailed with an inner red circle of a vine and foliage design encircled by three rings, orange, light green and dark green. Outside of that is a very wide final circle of multi-coloured idealized flames representing the five wisdoms which are the constituents of the ultimate pristine awareness.

Lineage: Jaya Vajradhara, Bhagavani Arya Tara, mahasiddha Tailo Prajnabhadra, mahasiddha Lilavajra, Rahulagupta, Lord Dipamkara, Bum Sengge, Tatva Shrimitra, Sanghashri, Ratnadvaja, Nayakashri, Dharmashri, Shakya Rakshita, Sujata, Buddhashri Mitra, Jnana Ratna, Jnana Vajra, Ratigupta, Shantigupta, Buddhagupta Natha, Taranatha (b.1575), etc.

[Added 4-2026]

Thematic Sets
Buddhist Deity: Tara, Green (Complex Forms)
Collection: John & Karina Stewart (Painting)
Buddhist Deity: Tara Masterworks
Collection: John & Karina Stewart (Painting Masterworks)
Painting Style: Palpung Monastery (Masterworks)
Collection: Bonhams, Hong Kong (May 4, 2026)
Collection: Bonhams, Hong Kong, May 4, 2026 (Painting)
Buddhist Deity: Tara, Samaya Yogini
Painting Style: Palpung Monastery
Buddhist Deity: Tara (Miscellaneous Iconography Masterworks)
Buddhist Deity: Tara, Samaya Yogini (Masterworks)
Publication: Tibet, Tradition & Change (Painting)