GREEN-TARA

GREEN TARA

Green Tara is said to embody the fulfillment of all beings’ desires, both worldly and spiritual. As one who grants beings’ wishes, she personifies good fortune, although unlike the worldly wealth-bestowing deities, the wishes she fulfills include liberation from ignorance.

She was once a princess named Jnana Chandra in a human realm. In her youth, she took a vow to achieve complete enlightenment in a female form and entered into deep concentration, focusing her mind on the dependent nature of reality and the task of benefiting other beings. She then made an oath to dedicate her entire future existence to the welfare of all beings.

Her green hue indicates that she grants wishes. The gesture of her right hand shows that she will guide those who aspire for Buddha-hood to their goal, while the gesture of her left hand indicates that she is free from all ignorance, being therefore endowed with the authority and ability to carry out her intention to fulfill the needs of beings. Her white necklace represents the joy that arises when the obscurations of ignorance are overcome, while the Utpala flower she holds in her left hand represents the effort that is required to overcome these obstructions. Her outstretched right leg suggests her readiness to help any being in suffering.

According to the legend Tara is an emanation of Chenrezi, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Once when Chenrezi was very moved by the suffering of all sentients being, he shed two tears. The tear from his right eye turned into the green form of Tara and the tear from his left eye turned into the white form.
Green Tara is adorned in silken garments and jeweled ornaments. The main difference on the iconography between the green Tara and the white Tara is the position of the legs. Green Tara sits in a posture of ease, with one leg drawn towards her and the other resting on a lotus bud that springs from the pedestal. Her hands are in the mudra of perfect generosity, holding the stems of blue lotus showing a peaceful and smiling expression.

Green Tara is an incarnation of the mother’s energy. She will linger in the universe until such time as all sentient beings have obtained freedom. Green Tara imparts enlightenment, first most for the individual, then for all. There are immense deal of stories traceback for eons to distinct world systems; other stories hinder to Hindu goddesses Durga and Kali. Tibetans affirm she was born from a tear of Avalokiteshvara who wept tears of compassion when he saw the dreadful misery of being imprisoned in lower realms. The present demonstration of green Tara broadcast absolutely in Buddhism in about the 7th century CE. Tara entrusts people their deepest heart-felt sentiments. These wishes are actualized very quickly when they arise out of fervent doctrinal and are for the benefit of others.

USE OF REAL GOLD
This thangka of Green Tara has real gold painted on its surface along with other paints. This is an ancient process of decorating the thangka in Tibetan Buddhism, here gold is ground into gold dust, which is then mixed with other undisclosed material to make it paintable on the canvas. this mixture is then mixed with transparent glue and painted on the thangka.