Tibetan Mantras of The 21 Taras
Tibetan Mantras of The 21 Taras
Tibetan Mantras of The 21 Taras
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Homage to Tara swift and fearless Homage to you whose face is like
With eyes like a flash of lightning One hundred autumn moons gathered
Lotus-born in an ocean of tears And blazes with the dazzling light
Of Chenresig, three worlds' protector. Of a thousand constellations.
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Homage to you born from a gold-blue lotus Homage to you who crown all Buddhas
Hands adorned with lotus flowers Whose action subdues without limit
Essence of giving, effort and ethics, Attained to every perfection
Patience, concentration and wisdom. On you the bodhisattvas rely.
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Homage to you whose TUTTARE and HUM Homage to you adored by Indra,
Fill the realms of desire, form and space. Agni, Brahma, Vayu and Ishvara.
You crush seven worlds beneath your feet Praised in song by hosts of spirits,
And have power to call all forces. Zombies, scent-eaters and yakshas.
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Homage to you whose TREY and PEY Homage to you whose TURE destroys
Destroy external wheels of magic. The great fears, the mighty demons.
Right leg drawn in and left extended, With a wrathful frown on your lotus face,
You blaze within a raging fire. You slay all foes without exception.
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Homage to you beautifully adorned Homage to you, radiant and joyful
By the Three Jewels' gesture at your heart. Whose crown emits a garland of light.
Your wheel shines in all directions You, by the laughter of TUTTARA
With a whirling mass of light. Conquer demons and lords of the world.
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Homage to you with power to invoke Homage to you with crescent moon crown
The assembly of local protectors. All your adornments dazzling bright.
With your fierce frown and vibrating HUM, From your hair-knot, Amitabha
You bring freedom from all poverty. Shines eternal with great beams of light.
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Homage to you who dwells in a blazing
Homage to you whose foot stamps the earth
wreath
And whose palm strikes the ground by your
Like the fire at the end of this age.
side.
Your right leg outstretched and left drawn
With a wrathful glance and the letter HUM,
in,
You subdue all in the seven stages.
Joy surrounds you who defeats hosts of foes.
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Homage to the blissful, virtuous, peaceful
Homage to you with joyous retinue
one
You subdue fully all enemies' forms
Object of practice, nirvana's peace
The ten-letter mantra adorns your heart
Perfectly endowed with SOHA and OM
And your knowledge-HUM brings liberation.
Overcoming all the great evils.
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Homage to TURE with stamping feet Homage to you who holds in your hand
Whose essence is the seed-letter HUM A moon like a celestial lake
You cause Merus, Mandara and Vindaya Saying TARA twice and the letter PEY
And all three worlds to tremble and shake. You dispel all poisons without exception.
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Homage to you on whom the kings of gods, Homage to you whose eyes, the sun and moon,
The gods themselves and all spirits rely. Radiate with pure brilliant light
Your armor radiates joy to all Uttering HARA twice and TUTTARA
You soothe conflicts and nightmares as well. Dispels extremely fearful plagues.
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Homage to you, adorned with three natures
Perfectly endowed with peaceful strength Thus the root mantra is praised
You destroy demons, zombies and yakshas And twenty-one homages offered.
O TURE, most exalted and sublime!
Those endowed with perfect and pure respect for these goddesses--
The intelligent who recite these praises with most supreme faith
Both in the evening and upon waking at dawn--
Will have fearlessness bestowed on them by this remembrance.
After being purified of all evils completely,
They will attain destruction of all lower realms
And the seven million conquering Buddhas
Will quickly grant them every empowerment.
Thus they will attain greatness and so forth
To the ultimate state of supreme Buddhahood.
As a result all violent poisons--
Whether abiding within or spreading to others--
That they have eaten or drunk
By this remembrance will be completely removed
And they will eliminate quickly all afflictions by spirits, epidemics,
Poisons and all various sufferings.
Visualize much radiant and blissful green light from the TAM and mantra at Tara's heart streams into
you and into the sentient beings
surrounding you. This light purifies the imprints of all negative actions and dispels sickness and harms
from spirits. In addition, it brings
inspirations and blessings from Tara, thus enabling you to realize the entire gradual path to
enlightenment quickly. While doing this
visualization, recite as much as possible Tara's peaceful mantra.
Requesting Prayer
O compassionate and venerable subduing goddess
May the infinite beings, including myself,
Soon purify the two obscurations and complete both collections
So that we may gain full enlightenment.
For all my lives, until I reach this stage,
May I know the happiness of humans and gods.
So that I may become fully omniscient,
Please pacify quickly all obstacles, spirits,
Obstructions, epidemics, diseases and so forth,
The various causes of untimely death,
Bad dreams and omens, the eight fears and other afflictions
And make it so they no longer exist.
May the mundane and supramundane collections
Of all excellent and auspicious qualities and happiness
Increase and develop and may all wishes
Be fulfilled naturally and effortlessly, without an exception.