Ushnishavijaya Tara, Victorious Crown of the Tathagatas [4/21]

༄༅། །གཚུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གཙུག་ཏོར།
།མཐའ་ཡས་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་་བར་སྤྱོད་མ། །
མ་ལུས་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ་ཐོབ་པའི།
།རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་ཀྱིས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྟེན་མ། །

Homage to Tara of the victorious crown,
whose deeds surpass the sands of the Ganges,
in whom the six perfections are complete,
and whom the peerless heirs of the Dharma,
the sons of the Victorious Ones,
praise with all their hearts.

Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage

Tara of the “victorious (vijaya) crown protuberance (ushnisha) of the Tathagatas”. She appears golden in colour, with one face, two eyes and four arms — signifying her victory over the four maras. She sits upon a white moon disc and a golden lotus.

Her first right hand forms the gesture of granting boons (varada mudra) upon her right knee, and her second right hand holds a rosary. Her first left hand raises a golden flask of consecrated water, and her second left holds a golden club topped with a blazing jewel. She is adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments. Above her crown appears the buddha Amoghasiddhi. She has the power to neutralise every poison, to overcome the lord of death, and to bestow health and long life.

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