Buddhist Deity: Iconography (Tara Six Topics)

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Iconography:
- Three Points
- Six Categories of Form
- Number Sets

Video: Iconography (HAR on Patreon [15.5 min.])

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Three Points: (Further Explanation)
1. Origins, Gender & Ranking (Religious Context)
2. Iconic & Non-iconic Appearance (Religious Context & Iconography)
3. Colours & Numbers: Three & Three (Iconography)

Six Categories of Form:
--- Green
--- White
--- Red
--- Eight Fears
--- Twenty-one
--- Miscellaneous

Tara Number Sets: (Further Explanation)
- Single Deity Tara (numerous)
- Two Deity Tara (Day/night)
- Three Deity Tara (numerous systems)
- Five Deity Tara (2 systems, minimum. Sadhansagara & Rinjung)
- Eight Fears Tara (numerous systems)
- Eleven Deity Tara (Vajravali)
- Thirteen Deity Tara (Vajravali, Rinjung)
- Seventeen Deity Tara (Suryagupta)
- Nineteen Deity Vajra Tara (Mitra Gyatsa)
- Twenty-one Taras (5 systems, minimum)
- Twenty-one Deity Vajra Tara
- Twenty-five Deity Tara (Samaya Yogini)

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Jeff Watt 7-2026

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