This book is a comprehensive review of Tara's forms and hypotheses about her origin, providing the reader with a variety and inspiring information about the goddess. The focus of the second part of the book is directly Red Tara. Various forms of Red Tara found in the Buddhist world and their special qualities are described here. Readers with a deeper theoretical interest in this topic will be interested in the details of the lines of succession, various texts and variations in the iconography of the goddess.