Buddhist Deity: Tara Videos
Tara Main PageOver 3 hours of Tara videos on general topics and specific works of art. (Updated 6-2026).
Tara General Videos:
- Introduction: Three Points [6 min.]
- Six Iconographic Categories [6 min.]
- Number Sets [6 min.]
- Tara in Highest Yoga Tantra (Previously on Patreon) [7 min.]
- Tara: Wrathful Appearance [4.5 min.]
- Painting Masterworks
- Sculpture Masterworks [7 min.]
Tara Six Topics: (HAR on Patreon)
- Introduction [7.5 min.]
1. Iconography & Forms [15.5 min.]
2. Source Texts: Part 1 [16 min.], Part 2
3. Origin Stories
4. Buddha Families
5. Function & Context
6. Nyingma Consolidation
Green Tara:
--- Three Iconographic Categories [5 min.]
--- Early Paintings [5 min.]
--- Green Tara Confusions: Part 1 (HAR on Patreon [9 min.])
--- Chittamani Green Tara [5 min.]
--- Chittamani Green Tara [Extended] (HAR on Patreon)
--- Green Tara: Best Examples [5 min.]
--- Green Tara: Gold Fill [4.5 min.]
--- The Mystery of the Tara 17 Deity Mandala [6 min.]
--- Green Tara Mudras [6 min.]
--- Green Tara 17 Deity Mandala: HAR 779 [7 min.]
--- Green Tara - Eight Fears (HAR 72071) [5.5 min.]
--- Cleveland Tara, HAR #59224 [6 min.]
White Tara:
--- White Tara, Part 1 (introduction, 4 min.)
--- White Tara, Part 2 (iconography, 5 min.)
--- White Tara: Three Iconographic Categories [5 min.]
--- White Tara HAR #542 [8 min.]
--- White Tara HAR #35896 [6.5 min.]
Black Tara:
--- Black Tara Iconography [4 min.]
--- Mahachina Krama Tara [7.5 min.]
Red Tara:
--- Red Tara: Three Iconographic Categories [5.5 min.]
Yellow Tara:
--- Vajra Tara [4.5 min.]
Eight Fears & Twenty-One Taras:
--- Tara & the Eight Fears: Set 1 [5 min.]
--- Twenty-One Taras [4 min.]
--- Twenty-One Taras of Atisha [5.5 min.]
--- Twenty-One Taras of Suryagupta [4.5 min.]
--- Tara, Twenty-One #65257 [7 min.]
Book Reviews:
- Manjushri Root Tantra (Manjushri Mula Kalpa). 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha [6.5 min.]
- In Praise of Tara, Songs to the Saviouress by Martin Willson [3.5 min.]
- The Śakti Cult and Tara. Edited by D.C. Sircar [3 min.]
- The Cult of Tara by Stephen Beyer [4 min.]
- The Origin of Tara Tantra by Jonang Taranatha [4 min.]
- Tara: The Feminine Divine by Bokar Rinpoche [3.5 min]
- The Tara Tantra: Tara's Fundamental Ritual Text (Tara-mula-kalpa) by Susan A. Landesman. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. Columbia University, 2020
HAR Team [Added 8-2021, updated 6-2026]
(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).
