༄༅། །ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པར་མཛད་པའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་བསྐལ་པའི་མཐའ་མའི་མེ་ལྟར།
།འབར་བའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་དབུས་ན་གནས་མ། །
གཡས་བརྐྱང་གཡོན་བསྐུམ་ཀུན་ནས་བསྐོར་དགའི།
།དགྲ་ཡི་དཔུང་ནི་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་མ། །Homage to Tara like the fire at the end of an age,
Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage
the flames of that ending in her piled hair,
her right leg extended, her left drawn up;
the massed ranks of enemies and their captains
she consumes to the last,
and not one of them escapes her.
Tara “who brings to ripeness” is among the most wrathful aspects of Tara. Upon a golden sun disc and a red lotus she stands in the alidha posture, her left leg bent and her right extended. She is exceedingly wrathful and fierce, ruby-red in colour, with four arms, one face and two bloodshot eyes. The locks of her hair stand upright, and her whole body radiates a brilliance that turns to leaping flame. Her face is contorted in fury, brows knitted and lip curled, baring four sharp fangs and a curling red tongue. She is naked, adorned with gold and human bone, and wrapped in a green silk scarf.
In her first right hand she raises an iron sword, and in her first left hand a golden wheel. With her second pair of hands she draws a bow before her breast, the arrow aimed at the heart of an adversary. Above her crown appears the red buddha Amitabha. She has the power to subdue every difficulty and obstruction.
Paripacaka Tara may also be depicted in a “half-wrathful” form. She is then neither naked nor adorned with bone ornaments, but wears the customary divine silks and jewels. She is sometimes shown with three eyes, her hair bound up, and bow and arrow held separately in her right and left hands.
Curated and synthesised by
Jigme
References
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
The Gyalwang Drukpa. Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Ý Nghĩa và Hướng Dẫn Thực Hành. Hà Nội: NXB Tôn Giáo, 2021.
Tsem Rinpoche. “Suryagupta’s 21 Taras”. Accessed September 15, 2024. https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/suryaguptas-21-taras.html
