COPPER RESIN GOLD FACE PAINTED GREEN TARA STATUE

Green Tara appears as young beautiful maiden. Her body is green in colour. She has one face and two arms, wears a crown bedecked with five buddha images. She sits on lotus throne in Lalita attitude in half lotus posture. Her left hand shows the gesture of refuge vows and right hand the varada mudra because she is quick to answer the petitions of those who seek her aid. Tara is known as the great liebrator from eight kinds of danger or fears. The cultivation of  Tara sadhana will eliminate all demoniac and karmic obstacles, eradicates disaster and lengthen one's life span.

There are 21 forms of  Tara. In reality they are all the transformed bodies of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of compassion.Tara represents the entire enlightened activities of all Buddhas and  hence she is called the mother of the Buddhas of three times. It is said in a sutra that Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva saved and ferried over countless suffering beings from the sea of birth and death.   source: Min Bahadur Shakya, The Iconography of Nepalese Buddhism