Raganisudana Tara, Destroyer of All Attachments [16/21]

༄༅། །ཆགས་པ་འཇོམས་པའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཀུན་ནས་བསྐོར་རབ་དགའ་བའི།
།དགྲ་ཡི་ལུས་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་འགེམས་མ། །
ཡི་གེ་བཅུ་པའི་ངག་ནི་བཀོད་པའི།
།རིག་པ་ཧཱུྃ་ལས་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཉིད་མ། །

Homage to Tara of all-pervading joy,
from whom those hostile to the Dharma fall away,
whose ten-syllable mantra is most holy;
the sound of that bright spell, the syllable HUM,
rings out to the furthest bound
of all the ten directions.

Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage

Tara “who destroys every attachment” is beautiful of aspect and slightly fierce. She appears coral-red in colour, with one face, three eyes and two arms. She sits in the sattva-paryanka posture upon a golden sun disc and an orange lotus. She is adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments.

In her right hand she holds an iron trident before her heart, described as piercing the bodies of adversaries. In her left she raises a branch heavy with fruit and flowers, the forefinger extended in the tarjani gesture. Above her crown appears the buddha Akshobya. Her principal activity is the increase and cultivation of discriminating awareness.

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