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Green Tara
An even cleverer taming of the goddess consists in the fact that she incarnates in the bodies of men.
Countless monks have chosen Tara as their yiddam and then visualize themselves as the goddess in
their meditative practices. “Always an in all practices, he must visualize himself as the Holy Lady,
bearing in mind that the appearance is the deity, that his speech is her mantra, and that his memory
and mental constructs are her knowledge” (Beyer, 1978, p. 465). Her role as the “mother of all
Buddhas” is also taken on by the male meditators, who thus say the following words: “[I am] the
mother who gives birth to the Conquerors and their sons; I possess all her body, speech, mind,
qualities, and active functions” (Beyer, 1978, p. 449). In one of his works, Albert Grünwedel
reproduces the portrait of a high-ranking Mongolian lama who is revered as an incarnation of Tara.
Even modern western followers of Buddhism would like to see the Sixteenth Karmapa as the green
Tara.
Like Palden Lhamo, Tara also plays a role in Tibetan realpolitik, then the latter is — in their own
view — played out by gods, not human agents. Hence, the official opinion from out of the Potala was
that the Russian Czars were supposed to be an embodiment of Tara. Such image transferences are
naturally very well suited to exciting the global power fantasies of the lamas. Then, since the goddess