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Green Tara accompanied by two standing attendants. At the upper left is Shakyamuni Buddha. At the upper right is White T...
09/01/2026

Green Tara accompanied by two standing attendants. At the upper left is Shakyamuni Buddha. At the upper right is White Tara.

Video: Tara Painting #88656

In the registers occupying the upper half of the composition are the Twenty-one Taras of the Suryagupta Tradition. In the registers of the lower half of the composition are the Twenty-one Taras according to the Atisha Tradition.

At the bottom center are two donor figures with a Tibetan teacher wearing monastic garments and a pandita hat seated directly above.

Jeff Watt 2-2021

For more information on this painting, search 88656 on the HAR website.

This sketchbook by Jivarama is the earliest extant Newari sketchbook, dating to 1435, and was made when Jivarama was wor...
08/29/2026

This sketchbook by Jivarama is the earliest extant Newari sketchbook, dating to 1435, and was made when Jivarama was working for Tibetan patrons. It is a proper sketchbook made by the artist to showcase his designs, *not* a collection of iconometric illustrations which is what we call ‘sketchbooks’ produced by Tibetan artists.

It is in the folding book format that was commonly used in Nepal for texts, sketchbooks, and other types of manuscripts. The manuscript has 39 folios. The first two show the latter four of Vaishravana’s horsemen that are normally part of a set of eight, suggesting that there may once have been pages that preceded the current beginning. The end of the set of 39 folio pages turns over to the reverse side, which is decorated with 7 additional pages of decorative patterns. All the pages are shown below in order, with the folio pages unfolded, and the reverse pages last.

The colophon of this sketchbook is located in the upper portion of folio 23 the inscription provides the following information:
“In Newari Samvat Year 555 (CE 1435) on the second day of the dark half of Vaišākha Month [April-May], Jīvarāma personally wrote this, [and] after [he] heard [instructions] from Chon bhota made the whole book himself. After having come from Prati cittam [towards the west; perhaps a place name], where he heard [instructions] from Lālā Chunva [a Newar phonetic rendering of a Tibetan name ending in “chung wa ,the younger”]. Giving the book special importance, he brought it back to [his own] vihāra. After working in Nyar Dva [Tibetan place name?], he then brought it back. This was made personally by Jīvarāma.”

For more information on Jīvarāma and his work, please visit the Himalayan Art Resources’s website.

Tara, Removing Poverty (Clearing All Misfortune): composition #12 from the set of the Twenty-one Taras according to the...
08/28/2026

Tara, Removing Poverty (Clearing All Misfortune): composition #12 from the set of the Twenty-one Taras according to the system of Suryagupta （HAR #44415)

The three figures at the top center belong to the set of Thirty-five Confession Buddhas. Directly below are green Mahamayuri and blue Mantramanudharani belonging to the set of five deities known as the Pancha Raksha.

At the lower right and left are two of the Twelve Yaksha Generals from the Medicine Buddha mandala of fifty-one deities.

At the bottom center is Dorje Yudronma. At the left is ’Tersar Dzammar‘ red Jambhala. At the right is orange Vaishravana Blowing a Conch.

Jeff Watt 6-2014

The description of Vajra Tara originates with the Hevajra Cycle of Ta**ras and described in the Vajrapanjara Ta**ra. The...
08/27/2026

The description of Vajra Tara originates with the Hevajra Cycle of Ta**ras and described in the Vajrapanjara Ta**ra. There are a number of forms of Tara that are yellow. In general, forms of Tara can be classified as Kriya Ta**ra and others as Anuttaryoga Ta**ra. There are very few if any forms of Tara that are classified as Charya and Yoga Ta**ra.

In the Vajravali Collection of Mandalas Vajra Tara is included under the Fourteen Mandalas of the Non-dual Ta**ra, Vajra Tara 11 Deity.

According to the Mitra Gyatsa Collection of Mandalas (rgyud sde kun btus, vol.30, pages 213-219) Vajra Tara is included in the Eighteen Anuttarayoga Mother Ta**ra Mandalas, 106. Vajra Tara 19 Deity ( #106).

In the Ocean of Sadhanas, edited version by Namkha Chime, there are two Vajra Taras mentioned:
- #51. Tara, Vajra, Yellow with Four Faces and Eight Hands, Twenty-one Deities.
- #52. Tara, Vajra, White with One Face and Two Hands.

[58] Vajra Tara: Vajra Tara arising from the [Vajra] Panjara [ta**ra].
Vajra Tara, with four faces and eight hands. The main face is yellow, the right black, the left red, and behind white. Each face has three eyes. The four right hands hold, a vajra, arrow, conch and [gesture of] supreme generosity. The four left, an utpala, bow, hook and wrathful [gesture] together with a lasso. ... Having three eyes [and the faces both] smiling and fierce. Having jewel ornaments and garments of silk. Seated in the vajrasana [posture]. (Extracted from the text ’A Lamp Removing Obscurations‘ by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557. Based on the Bari Gyatsa).

Jeff Watt 3-2021 [updated 1-2022]

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