#White Tara

Essays on Vietnamese culture, Hạ Thái lacquer, and Vajrayana Buddhism.

Five main traditions depict the twenty-one Taras: Suryagupta, Atisha, Sadhana-samucchaya, Longchen Nyingtig and Chogyur Lingpa.

Tara is a deity of compassion, carrying beings “across the ocean of samsara to the shore of liberation”.