༄༅། །སྒྲོལ་མ་རབ་རྒྱས་མ་།།
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལྷ་ཡི་མཚོ་ཡི་རྣམ་པའི།
།རི་དྭགས་རྟགས་ཅན་ཕྱག་ན་བསྣམས་མ། །
ཏཱ་ར་གཉིས་བརྗོད་ཕཊ་ཀྱི་ཡི་གེས།
།དུག་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་པ་ནི་སེལ་མ། །Homage to Tara, deep as the ocean in her marks,
Nghi quỹ tu trì Lục Độ Phật Mẫu, Drukpa lineage
the sacred deer-sign in her flower-like hand,
who is invoked with TARA and with PHET;
the poisons, in their countless kinds,
she destroys to the very last
and leaves not one remaining.
Tara “the victorious” appears peaceful and white in colour. She has one face, two eyes and four arms, and sits in the sattva-paryanka posture upon a goose “of sleek and shining wing”, beneath which are a white moon disc and a white lotus.
Her first pair of hands is raised above the crown of her head in the gesture of joy (mudita mudra), holding two identical iron hooks. Her second right hand rests upon her knee in the gesture of granting boons (varada mudra), while her second left hand holds the stem of a blue utpala lotus in full bloom, bearing a volume of scripture. She is adorned with divine silk garments and jewel ornaments, and above her crown appears the red buddha Amitabha. She has the power to cure the venom of snakebite, and the diseases associated with the naga such as leprosy.
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
