My Friend Tara

"The great goddess Tara manifests in a variety forms and colors to help alleviate the suffering beings who supplicate her. She can make a safe place to learn, increase patience, protect friends and family, stop natural disasters, help crops grow, etc. She is always ready to spring into action for the benefit of beings and vowed to continually be reborn in female form to benefit the world. This book introduces how she came to be and the different kinds of activity she can manifest. Includes a guided meditation"--

LASHA MUTUAL is an artist whose deep commitment to Buddhist theory and practice has suffused her artistic expression, giving rise to a body of work that blends the action of painting with a meditative sense of contemplation and focus. Lasha’s intention is to cultivate a generous, peaceful, and clear mind that becomes manifest in her artwork and that can be shared with others. She lives with her husband, son, and abundance of pets in a little yellow brick cottage in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. https://lashamutual.com/
IVAN BERCHOLZ, publisher of Bala Kids and co-owner of Shambhala Publications, Inc., is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and longtime educator. He has a deep passion for making traditional Buddhist subjects and practices accessible and relatable to young folks. Ivan lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he enjoys making jokes with his nephews, gathering people to meditate, wandering in the woods, and making chitchat at his local coffee shop.