The Seven-Eyed White Tara

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White Tara's face here is true to the Tibetan Buddhist aesthetic with its squarish structure having thin features embedded in it. The waist is exceptionally slim and delicate and the breasts too are not over-emphasized, unlike the Indian ideal. The Goddess wears a five-crested crown and her lips are pursed in a slight smile. The eyes, framed by arched brows, are in a self-contented state of semi-closure. Another Tibetan iconographical characteristic is the larger face in proportion to the body.

The goddess here has a white, almost silver body, while her ornaments and crown are made entirely of gold. Two enormous kundalas (circular earrings) dangle from her ears whose lobes have elongated under their immense weight. The short neck is adorned both with a collar choker as also a long necklace falling down her chest. A detailed scarf covering both shoulders is held together by a knot at her waist. As usual she is bedecked in a variety of rich ornaments, including bracelets and armlets. From her slender arms issue two full-blown lotuses terminating at the two respective shoulders. These are symbols of beauty and auspiciousness. The lithe lower limbs are gracefully folded over each other with the soles facing upwards. Incised on each of the soles is an eye, as also on the palm of each hand. Together with the third eye on her forehead, White Tara therefore has a total of seven eyes. These indicate that she sees all suffering and cries for help from the human world using both ordinary and psychic or extraordinary means of perception. They thus symbolize the vigilance of her compassion.

Tara's golden dhoti is held together in place by a jewelled waistband. This drape falls in pleats near her legs, flowing and unfolding like an oriental fan, projecting slightly beyond the two-tiered lotus pedestal on which the goddess is seated.