Trailokyavijaya Tara, Victorious over the Three Worlds [6/21]
༄༅། །འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་ལས་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་མེ་ལྷ་ཚངས་པ།
།རླུང་ལྷ་སྣ་ཚོགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོད་མ། །
འབྱུང་པོ་རོ་ལངས་དྲི་ཟ་རྣམས་དང༌།
།གནོད་སྦྱིན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་མདུན་ནས་བསྟོད་མ། །Homage to Tara before whom Agni and Brahma bow,
Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage
whom Vayu and Ishvara, lords of the heavens,
the gandharvas and the hosts of spirits seek,
and whom the yakshas and the throngs of maras,
with one heart and in gladness,
extol and hold in reverence.
Tara “victorious throughout the three worlds”. She appears ruby-red in colour, with one face, two eyes and four arms. Adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments, she sits in the sattva paryanka posture upon a golden sun disc and a red — or golden — lotus. Her golden sun disc signifies that she has passed beyond every illusion about the destiny of beings.
In her first right hand she raises a golden vajra, and in her second right hand the blazing sword of wisdom. With her first left hand she points the forefinger in the threatening tarjani gesture, though in this painting she shows instead the gesture of fearlessness (abhaya mudra). In her second left hand she holds a noose before her breast, the forefinger again extended in tarjani. Above her crown appears the red buddha Amitabha. She has the power to purify the negativity of every elemental force throughout the ten directions.
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
