Tara is the Mother Goddess who answers human supplication.

    Tibetan Buddhism numbers 21 Taras, often featuring seven all-seeing eyes of compassion (three in the forehead, one in each palm and foot sole). White Tara, the mild form of the goddess, promises health, long life and prosperity. Green Tara promotes growth, solves practical problems and protects our everyday world. She is particularly associated with conservation and protection of the planet, often resonnating with gardening women or those that find solace in the natural world. She is incarnate in all good women, crowned and adorned with flora and fauna of earth's harvest.

    But even in Her wrathful aspect, Tara's role is to dispel the fear of death and foster the evolution of compassion. Notice her foot is outstretched, instantly ready to meet her supplicants.

    Tara's name means One Who Saves. She epitomizes the influence of the older mother-goddess cults upon the Buddhist Mahayana religion.      Her concept evolved in India and later she became the most important goddess in the Mahayana pantheon. She holds a very prominent position in Tibet and Nepal.

     Tara was born from a tear of the Boddhisatva of Compassion, Avolokiteswora. She was conceived primarily as a savioress and generally regarded as his consort, frequently portrayed with him.

     Tara is believed to protect humans while they are crossing the ocean of existence. Her compassion for living beings, and her desire to save them from suffering, is said to be stronger than a mother's love for her children.

     Her most distinctive emblem is the blue lotus which she carries in her left hand.

     Among the forms of Tara: when she is red, yellow and blue, she is in a menacing mood; white or green she is gentle and loving. This is the same twofold nature as Shiva's wife.

Tara is the central female diety of Tibet. As a bodhisattva, she blesses and saves those who pray to her. The faithful may appeal to her directlly without the intermediary of a lama. She is an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of mercy. She is considered the mother of all buddhas and bodhisattvas.

There are 21 forms of Tara. Green Tara is particularly associated with earth and conservation and protection of the planet. She is incarnate in all good women, crowned and adorned with flora and fauna of earth's harvest.

She is usually pictured seated on a lotus throne, right leg pendant with foot supported by a small lotus. Her right hand is in "charity" mudra and her left in "argument" mudra.