The beautiful brass figure of the female Boddhisattva is nicely carved out with copper and silver inlays on it.

Tara is a female Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism who appears as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements. In Japan she is known as Tarani Bosatsu but virtually unknown in China.

Tara is a tantric meditation deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness. Tara is actually the generic name for a set of Buddhas or bodhisattvas of similar aspect. These may more properly be understood as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often considered metaphoric for Buddhist virtues.

Green Tara, known as the Buddha of enlightened activity is the most common form of Tara. She is also known as White Tara representing compassion, long life, healing and serenity; also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or Cintachakra,

Red Tara, of fierce aspect associated with magnetizing all good things, Black Tara, associated with power, Yellow Tara, associated with wealth and prosperity, Blue Tara, associated with transmutation of anger, Cittamani Tara, a form of Tara widely practiced at the level of Highest Yoga Tantra in the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, portrayed as green and often conflated with Green Tara, Khadiravani Tara (Tara of the teak forest), who appeared to Nagarjuna in the Khadiravani forest of South India.