Tara iconography

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Thanks, John! I have passed it on!

LM


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> John C. Huntington
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:02 AM
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Tara iconography
> 
> Dear Lars Martin,
> 
> What you have been given so far is mostly descriptive 
> iconography. If yous scholar wants iconology as well as 
> iconography, s/he should look at the following in addition to 
> those mentioned:
> 
> Read first:
> 
> Willson, Martin. In Praise of Tara (Includes very nice 
> drawings of Astamaha-abhaya Tara)
> 
> Beyer, Stephen, Cult of Tara
> 
> Then then:
> 
> Anon. Cittamani Tara: The collected arrangement of 
> recitations of an extended sadhana of Cittamani Tara
> 
> Yeshe, Lama Thubten, Cittamani Tara: A Commentary on the 
> Anuttarayogatantra Method of Cittamani Tara
> 
> __________________, The twenty-one Taras
> 
> Zopa, Lama Thubten, Offering Prayer of the Four Mandalas to 
> Cittamani Tara
> 
> Tåranathå, Jo-nan, The Origin of the Tara Tantra
> 
> If there is time, read:
> 
> Maitra, A. K., Tårå Tantram. Varendra Research Society, 1914 
> (Might be a bit hard to find)
> 
> Ghosh, Mallar. Development of Buddhist Iconography in Eastern 
> India:   
> A Study of Tara Prajnas of Five Tathgatas art Bhrikuti
> 
> Shastri, H., The Origin and Cult of Tara=