"Tara Devagana" is a masterpiece taken from Sri Lanka and kept in the London Museum
The statue of Tara Devagana in the most beautiful posture in the Wenkel courtyard to the metal statues of the British Museum in London can be considered as a masterpiece created by a leading oriental artist who lived in Ceylon during the 7th or 8th century. This bronze statue is gilded and polished to a very high finish. There are two opinions regarding this statue and one opinion is that it is a statue of Goddess Pattini based on the Hindu religious features that influenced the culture of Ceylon during the last part of the Anuradhapura Kingdom. The other view is that Mahayana Buddhism was spreading faster than Theravada Buddhism in Ceylon in the 7th century AD, so this is a statue of the goddess Tara associated with the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva story in the Mahayana philosophy. Confirming this second view, later statues of the goddess Tara with similar features were found in East Asian countries, which led to the conclusion that the statue was a 'Tara goddess'....
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