Historical Period19c CE
No foundation date recorded; the securely documented layer is the 19th century
3000 BCE19th century CEPresent
Sacred Facts · At a Glance
- Gender
- female
- Sacred Colours
- redgold
- Sacred Offerings
- flowers · incense · coconut
Primary Scriptures
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Tarapith
One of 51 Śakti Pīṭhas. The tantric-mahavidya cemetery-temple where Bamakhepa (1837–1911), Ramakrishna's contemporary, practised aghora for 60 years. Tara is worshipped as the primordial black-stone image dating back over 1000 years.
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
- Offerings
- flowersincensecoconut
- Sacred colours
- redgold
🛕 Principal Temples
- Tarapith10th c. foundation📍 Tarapith, Birbhum, West Bengal, IndiaTārāpīṭh — 51 Śakti Pīṭha, Bamakhepa's seat
🎊 Festivals
- Annual festivalvaries by site
Sources & provenance
📜 6 Primary🎓 1 Scholarly
- 📜Primary sourceBookDavid R. Kinsley. Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahāvidyās (1997) pp. 111Bamakhyapa's dates and the cremation-ground vision; seen as reference 1 of the Bamakhepa article cited below
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