Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Tara

Tara: "Green Tara is typically pictured as a dark green-skinned girl of 16.  She wears striped leggings, but only her shoulders are covered above.  She wears the many characteristic ornaments of the samboghakaya.

Green Tara has her right foot extended as if about to rise.  Her left hand, in the gesture of granting refuge holds the stem of a blue water lily or utpala that waves over her left shoulder while her right hand also holding a flower, offers that which we desire, a boon."

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