21 Tara
- Inventory number:
- Ж-1352
- Author:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 19th century
- Place of Creation:
- Buryatia
- Provenance:
- Received from a private individual
- Technique:
- painting
- Size:
- 30.5 x 22 cm
- Material:
- canvas, mineral paint
- Type of object:
- Thangka
- Subject:
- Buddhism
Ekavimsati Tara – Twenty-one Taras, an iconographic composition associated with the “Hymn of Twenty-One Praises”, where each stanza is dedicated to a different form of Tara. At the center of the thangka is Green Tara, surrounded by 20 others, with Buddha Amitābha above her.
