Featured Resources

• Galland, China, Longing for Darkness, Tara and the Black Madonna, Penguin Books, 1990.
• Hindutva: Hindu History by Sudheer Birodkar (http://www.hindutwa.com/). Unfortunately, this website is no longer online.
• Western Buddhist Review : "Tara: Her Origins and Development,"
  (http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol2/tara_origins_and_development.html).

Text

• Alan Clewley's pages (http://www.alc.enta.net/21TaraPractice3a.htm).
• Amitabha Buddhist Centre, "The Practice of Tara" (http://www.fpmtabc.org.sg/DOnline/Dharma.html).
• Beyer, Stephan, as quoted in Motherpeace, A Way to the Goddess through Myth, Art and Tarot, Harper & Row, 1983, pp. 90-91.
• Chockalin, Kurappiah, "Om or Hare Krsna?," The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, as quoted at HinduNet (http://www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1995_Jan/msg00059.html).
• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html).
• Darma Therapy Trust Praises to the 21 Taras (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7534/taraprayers.html).
• Fisher, Elizabeth, Rise Up and Call Her Name, a Unitarian Universalist Curriculum.
• Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition Homage to the Twenty-One Taras (http://www.fpmt-osel.org/meditate/21taras.htm).
• Govinda, Lama Anagarika, as quoted by Sir Lawrence Durdin-Robertson in The Goddesses of India, Tibet & Japan (I found this originally at http://www.isis-kolleg.de/goddess_tara_in_tibetan_buddhism.htm, but the link is no longer good)
• Himalayan Art Project The Art of Tibet (http://www.tibetart.org/image.cfm/294.html).
• holymountain.com "The Legend of Tara" (http://www.holymtn.com/gods/tara.htm).
• Jassmine's Tara http://www.gotojassminesitenow.com/goddesses/tara.html).
• jeffsutherland.org "The Blessed Arya Tara"; The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet (http://www.jeffsutherland.org/tara/).
• Khandro Net "Homage to Tara" (http://www.khandro.net/prayer_21Taras.htm).
• Kinsley, David, Hindu Goddesses, Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, University of California Press, 1988, p. 161.
• K K Tham's pages, "Introduction to the Twenty-One Emanations of Arya Tara" (http://www.geocities.com/kennykktham/arya/tara.html).
• Lam Rim Bristol's Tara Puja (http://www.lamrim.clara.co.uk/download/tara_puja.htm).
• Maitreya Project "Tara, the Mother of all Buddhas" (http://www.maitreyaproject.org/holyobjects/tara.html#green).
• NitinG., "Green Tara and White Tara - Feminist Ideals in Buddhist Art," Exotic India Arts E-Zine, November 2000 (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/tara.htm).
• Olson, Eleanor, as excerpted in the Rise Up and Call Her Name Sourcebook and Journal, (from the essay "The Buddhist Female Deities" appearing in the book The Goddess Re-Awakening, compiled by Shirley Nicholson).
• Osel Shen Phen Ling, Praises and Requests to the Twenty-one Taras (http://www.fpmt-osel.org/meditate/21taras.htm).
• Purna, Charmachari, as quoted in "Tara: Her Origins and Development," Western Buddhist Review (http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol2/tara_origins_and_development.html).
• rose, dawn"Thoughts on Tara," Sourcebook and Journal, Rise Up and Call Her Name, p. 234 (TaraMaterialWorld.htm).
• Sadhana 21 Taras (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7534/taraprayers.html).
• Sangharakshita, "The Veil of Stars," from The Enchanted Heart, as quoted in "Tara: Her Origins and Development," Western Buddhist Review (http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol2/tara_origins_and_development.html).
• Sherab, Layman, "About Tara, Practice Notes" (http://members.tripod.com/~vortexCD/homag.htm) and "Homage to Tara" (http://members.tripod.com/%7EvortexCd/tarnot.htm)
• Shiva Shakti Mandalam "Shri Tara Devi" (http://www.hubcom.com/tantric/tara.htm).
• Tara Dhatu Pure Realm of Tara (http://www.taradhatu.org).
• Women Active in Buddhism Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas (http://members.tripod.com/~Lhamo/9deity.htm).
• Yeshe, Ven. Lama Thubten, Amitabha Buddhist Center (http://web.singnet.com.sg/~fpmtsing/d-tara.html#P1).
• Yogi Chen, "The Twenty-one Taras" (http://www.yogichen.org/efiles/bk61.html).

Graphics

• Black Tara, my graphic, created in Fireworks, based on a public domain gif from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Public Domain (http://www.ibiblio.org/).
• Dancing girl, 4,000 years old, free graphic from Sudheer Birodkhar's Hindutva site (www.hindutwa.com). [Note: This website is no longer online.]
• Devi, 9th century CE, free graphic from the Hindutva site.
• Green Tara, my graphic, created in Fireworks, based on a public domain image from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Public Domain (http://www.ibiblio.org/).
• Green Tara Smiling, used with the permission of Prema Dasara & Anahata Iradah, Traveling Light, skyfamily.com/traveling-light/).
• Nymph, 3rd century BCE, free graphic from the Hindutva site.
• Om, current form, free graphic from Hindutva (altered by me using Macromedia's Fireworks).
• Om, earliest form, free graphic from Hindutva (background color added by me using Fireworks).
• Polaris in Ursa Minor, (adapted from St. Cloud State's Dome of the Sky pages (http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/) using Fireworks.
• Red Tara, my graphic, created in Fireworks, based on a public domain gif from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Public Domain (http://www.ibiblio.org/).
• Tara Prayer Flags, from Traveling Light (http://www.skyfamily.com/traveling-light/index4.html).
• White Tara, my graphic, created in Fireworks, based on a public domain gif from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Public Domain (http://www.ibiblio.org/).
• Woman & Child, from the Magic Lantern Slide Collection of W. H. Jackson (http://www.harappa.com/magic/8.html (permission requested).
• Yellow Tara, my graphic, created in Fireworks, based on a public domain gif from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Public Domain (http://www.ibiblio.org/