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Tara Removing Suffering
Tibetan
late 16th century or early 17th century
Object Place: Tibet
Medium/Technique
Distemper on cotton
Dimensions
Image: 66.8 × 45.3 cm (26 5/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
Framed: 80.6 × 58.7 cm (31 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Framed: 80.6 × 58.7 cm (31 3/4 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.322
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionPainting with decorative borders, mounted on support panel. Would have originally been in thangka format. Painting depicts Tara Removing Suffering: number 19 from the set of Twenty-one Taras according to the system of Dipamkara Atisha. Other paintings from this set are 06.323 and 06.347.
Bejewelled goddess Tara seated in bodhisattva posture of royal ease. She carries a vase of sacred water in her right hand and the stem of the lotus in her left. At the bottom of the painting dancing goddesses are shown presenting offerings to Tara. The inscription on the painting reads: "I put my faith in the Reverend Tara/ Who removes all suffering."
Bejewelled goddess Tara seated in bodhisattva posture of royal ease. She carries a vase of sacred water in her right hand and the stem of the lotus in her left. At the bottom of the painting dancing goddesses are shown presenting offerings to Tara. The inscription on the painting reads: "I put my faith in the Reverend Tara/ Who removes all suffering."
Inscriptions"I put my faith in the Reverend Tara
Who removes all suffering"
alternative translation:
'Homage to Holy Tara Removing Suffering!'
Who removes all suffering"
alternative translation:
'Homage to Holy Tara Removing Suffering!'
Provenance1904, sold by Florine Langweil (b. 1861 – d. 1958), Paris, to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1906, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)