White Tara Statue – Buddhist Figure with Filigree

White Tara on a lotus pedestal. The statue is worked in filigree, gilded and silver-plated, set with colored stones. Within Vajrayana Buddhism, she is associated with longevity, healing, and mental clarity. She is known as Saptalochana Tara, the “Seven-Eyed Tara.”

The statue depicts White Tara seated in the lotus position, padma asana. Her seven eyes are, two on the face, one on the forehead, and one on each palm and sole of the feet. They represent her all-encompassing awareness and compassionate attentiveness in all directions.

Her right hand is opened in the gesture of granting, varada mudra, while the left hand is raised in the gesture of encouragement and protection, abhaya mudra. She holds the stems of two lotus flowers. Their fully blossomed flowers are positioned beside her shoulders. White Tara wears the crown and full ornaments of a bodhisattva.

Her robe and pedestal are worked in filigree. Thin wires are shaped into spirals, filled with small arched elements, and joined into ornamental patterns. Set colored stones accentuate the filigree and form floral motifs. The figure is worked all around.

The statue follows iconographic conventions of Vajrayana art in the Kathmandu Valley, in which posture, gesture, and ornament are brought together in a balanced composition.

White Tara 

statue in copper, lost-wax casting cast, decorated with fine filigree, gold- and silver-plated. The figure is patinated. The face is set in gold.

• Height: 12" / 32 cm
• Width: 8"/ 21 cm
• Depth: 5" / 12 cm
• Weight: 3.382 g

NOTE
The face painting is a cold gold application and water-soluble.