Since
Tara is a Buddhist goddess, I had asked the Buddhist
Lama Thubten Wangmo to perform the
blessing. I know her from the
Padma centre in Middelburg. I had sent her a photo of the statue beforehand. When we were having lunch before the blessing, she told me she'd gone online to do some research, and she was fairly certain it was not a statue of Tara, but of another goddess, namely Deepa
Lakhsmi, a hindu goddess of prosperity depicted performing an
Arati.