༄༅། །སྒྲོལ་མ་དངོས་གྲུབ་འབྱུང་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་མ་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱས་པའི།
།སྤྱན་གཉིས་པོ་ལ་འོད་རབ་གསལ་མ། །
ཧ་ར་གཉིས་བརྗོད་ཏུཏྟཱ་ར་ཡིས།
།ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲག་པོའི་རིམས་ནད་སེལ་མ། །Homage to Tara, full as the sun and moon,
Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage
the light of whose eyes is dazzling,
invoked with HARA twice and with TUTTARE;
all sickness and every lingering poison
she skilfully dissolves,
and so delivers beings.
Tara “the wellspring of realisation” appears peaceful, her body orange in colour. She has one face, two eyes and two arms, and sits in the sattva-paryanka posture upon a white moon disc and a white — or red — lotus.
She is described as holding a golden vase in both hands before her breast, with the power to bestow every attainment and to dissolve all disease. She is sometimes shown instead holding a jewel-topped golden vase in her right hand, her left resting upon her knee in the gesture of granting boons (varada mudra), a radiantly shining gem upon her palm. She is adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments, and above her crown appears the buddha Amoghasiddhi. She has the power to heal every kind of infectious bodily disease, and her practice aids the attainment of invisibility.
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
