Jagadvasi Tara, Who Summons All Beings [11/21]

༄༅། །ཕོངས་པ་སེལ་བའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ས་གཞི་སྐྱོང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྣམས།
།ཐམས་ཅད་འགུགས་པར་ནུས་མ་ཉིད་མ། །
ཁྲོ་གཉེར་གཡོ་བའི་ཡི་གེ་ཧཱུྃ་གིས།
།ཕོངས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སྒྲོལ་མ། །

Homage to Tara, guardian of the grounds,
whose power summons the hundred spirits forth,
whose trembling frown reveals the syllable HUM;
sorrow, suffering and destitution
she delivers utterly,
in every region where beings dwell.

Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage

Tara “who summons all beings” is also called Apadanasini, she “who drives off misfortune”, or Vipannirbarhana. She sits upon a golden sun disc and a red lotus, her right leg slightly extended. She appears wrathful and black as deepest darkness, with one face, two glaring eyes and two arms.

In her right hand she holds an iron hook, by which she “summons the eight great planets from the eight directions”. In her left hand she may hold a second iron hook — which “drives off misfortune” — or a “magical noose”, or both hook and noose together as the paired implements of subjugation. In this painting, however, she is shown with the magical noose before her heart, the forefinger raised in the threatening tarjani gesture. Above her crown appears the buddha Ratnasambhava. She is adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments. She has the power to free beings from hunger, thirst and poverty, and to increase their enjoyment.

Curated and synthesised by
Jigme

References

1. Beer, Robert. “Twenty-One Taras (Suryagupta Tradition)”. Tibetan Buddhist and Newar Tantric Art. Accessed September 15, 2024. https://www.tibetanart.com/Product.asp?PID=10

2. The Gyalwang Drukpa. Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Ý Nghĩa và Hướng Dẫn Thực Hành. Hà Nội: NXB Tôn Giáo, 2021.

3. Tsem Rinpoche. “Suryagupta’s 21 Taras”. Accessed September 15, 2024. https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/suryaguptas-21-taras.html