Tara is a female deity in both Hinduism and Buddhism who personifies compassion and offers salvation from the suffering of rebirth and death. She is thought to have been born of empathy for the suffering world and is regularly invoked for protection, guidance, and deliverance from difficult situations.
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c. 7000 BCE - c. 600 BCESome form of the goddess Tara probably developed by the Indus Valley Civilization.
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c. 1500 BCE - 1100 BCETara is mentioned in the Rig Veda.
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c. 1225 BCETara's temple at Tarapith is built.
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c. 400 CETara is mentioned in the tantric text Manjusri-Mula-Kalpa.
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c. 700 CETara appears as guide and protector in The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
