WHITE TARA

It is an image of the goddess Tara in her aspect of White Tara or Sitatara, the Chinese Tara. She presents the seven eyes and is in padmasana, meditation posture, according to her usual iconography. She has a slanted face with a vertical third eye and traces of polychrome. She wears a three-pointed diadem, of which the triratna appears in the central one, and behind her hair, painted black, gathered in a very high usnisha and with two side locks that fall on her shoulders. Dressed and adorned in the usual bodhisattva manner, with a shawl over her shoulders, forming at the end the characteristic Chinese-influenced scrolls, and a band across her chest, which is also visible at the back, she is seated on a base formed by two rows of very narrow lotus petals, with a counter at the top. The base remains smooth in its central part, while the back is carefully modeled. Remarks: At the base a visva?vajra, in the center of which is the taiqi (yin/yang). R.C.M. / Extracted from: Isabel CERVERA FERNÁNDEZ: Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta. Asian Art Collection. Granada, 2002.Bibliography: COMAS, R.: The art of the Himalayas in the Spanish collections: the bronzes. Madrid, 1993, p. 390.