The beautiful figure of the goddess Tara is being given a refine and detail treatment. A Tantric figure, she is worshipped both by the Hindus and the Buddhsits in India and Tibet. Tara is quite well known to the West through Her Tibetan manifestations. She occupies in the Hindu tantrik pantheon. She is the second of the ten Mahavidyas.

The figure is shown in a seated posture.

She has an important role in Tantrik cosmology because mantra, words, music are considered to be the very source of the cosmos. As Matrika Shakti She deludes the entire human race with Her Maya of letters, and words. This has been expressed in a Tantrik form, but, practically speaking, it is sufficient to say that much hypnosis (Maya) comes about via the medium of words. Millions of people have lost their lives through this power.

Thus Her power and place in the Tantrik pantheon is quite justified, and Her mantra is described as a Siddha-Vidya, the cause of Maya and Englamouring. The background GIF here is the bija mantra of Sarasvati, Aim.