Mahashri-Tara - " Tara of Great Fortune"
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Room 1: India and Nepal
Orientation 5
Plinth 1
ABS 097
Code: ABS 097
Country: Nepal
Style: Early Malla Period
Date: 1400 - 1500
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 52.1 x 71.5 x 39.9
Materials: Wood with original painted decoration
Mahasri-Tara - “Tara of Great Fortune”
One of the particularities of Nepalese temples and shrines is the presence of large wooden sculptures often as a whole group. It is the distinct gesture of this statue that supports the identification as Mahasri-Tara - because she is the only Tara described in the iconographic compendium Sadhanamala displaying the dharmacakra-mudra.
Bibliography: von Schroeder, Ulrich. Buddhist Sculptures of the Alain Bordier Foundation. (Visual Dharma Publications, 2010); pp. 26-27; plate 10A.
One of the particularities of Nepalese temples and shrines is the presence of large wooden sculptures often as a whole group. It is the distinct gesture of this statue that supports the identification as Mahasri-Tara - because she is the only Tara described in the iconographic compendium Sadhanamala displaying the dharmacakra-mudra.
Bibliography: von Schroeder, Ulrich. Buddhist Sculptures of the Alain Bordier Foundation. (Visual Dharma Publications, 2010); pp. 26-27; plate 10A.