Tara iconography
Lars Martin Fosse
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Thu Apr 29 22:40:37 UTC 2010
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=
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