Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The enthroned Tara grants boons to devotees. She is surrounded by emanations displaying essentially the same iconography. In worship, each Tara is visualized as the bearer of different boons— the bringer of prosperity, the dispeller of sorrow, the destroyer of attachments. Below is a monk meditating on this visualization of White Tara and her emanations.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess TaraTwenty-One Emanations of the Goddess TaraTwenty-One Emanations of the Goddess TaraTwenty-One Emanations of the Goddess TaraTwenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

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