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The Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage, and the Excellent Benefits of Reciting the Praise

Translation of སྒྲལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉ་ཤ་རྩ་གཅག་གས་བསྟད་པ་ཕན་ཡན་དང་བཅས་པ (སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་བཅས་པ)

Language
English
Date
2019 CE
Translator
samye-translations
Extent
114 passages, 800 words
Text
complete digital text
Source
lotsawahouse · Samye Translations (tr.), The Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage, and the Excellent Benefits of… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site

Contents

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p1

Oṃ. Homage to the noble lady Tārā!

p2

Homage to Tārā, swift and valiant,

p3

Homage to Tuttārā, who banishes fear,

p4

Homage to Turā, who fulfils every need,

p5

With svāhā we offer you honor and praise!

p6

Homage to Tārā, swift and valiant,

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Whose glance flashes like flares of lightning;

p8

Born on the heart of a blossoming lotus

p9

That rose from the tears of the Triple World’s Lord. (1)

p10

Homage to the one whose countenance is

p11

A hundred full moons gathered in autumn,

p12

Smiling and glowing with brilliant radiance,

p13

Like a thousand stars clustered, ablaze. (2)

p14

Homage, golden lady, whose lotus-hand

p15

Is graced with a blue water-born flower.

p16

You embody generosity, diligence, endurance,

p17

Serenity, patience and meditation. (3)

p18

Homage to the one whose victories are endless,

p19

Jewel on the great Tathāgata’s crown.

p20

You are well served by the heirs of the Victors,

p21

Those who’ve accomplished all the perfections. (4)

p22

Homage to the one who, with tuttāra and hūṃ,

p23

Fills desire realms unto the ends of space.

p24

You trample underfoot the seven worlds,

p25

And have the strength to summon all. (5)

p26

Homage to the one, praised by Indra,

p27

Agni, Brahmā, Maruts, and Śiva.

p28

All the hosts of bhūtas, vetālas,

p29

Gandharvas and yakṣas pay tribute to you. (6)

p30

Homage to the one who, with traṭ and phaṭ,

p31

Crushes the enemies’ yantras to dust.

p32

With right leg bent in and left leg extended,

p33

Shining you tread amidst a turbulent blaze. (7)

p34

Homage to Ture, the fearsome lady,

p35

Destroyer of the most powerful demons.

p36

With a lotus-face and a deep-furrowed brow,

p37

You are the slayer of each and every foe. (8)

p38

Homage to the one whose fingers grace

p39

Her heart and display the Three Jewels mudrā.

p40

You’re graced by wheels adorning every direction,

p41

With dazzling radiance that overwhelms all. (9)

p42

Homage to the one, supremely joyous,

p43

Whose splendorous crown spreads garlands of light.

p44

Smiling and laughing, with tuttāre

p45

You bring demons and worlds under control. (10)

p46

Homage to the one who can summon

p47

The hosts of earthly guardians.

p48

Your frown it quivers, and the syllable hūṃ

p49

Delivers us all from every misfortune. (11)

p50

Homage to the one, so brightly adorned,

p51

Who has a sliver of moon for a crown,

p52

Your locks are graced by Amitābha,

p53

Whose gleaming rays stream forever forth. (12)

p54

Homage to the one in a blazing halo

p55

Of flames, all-consuming, apocalyptic—

p56

Your right leg stretched out and left leg bent inward,

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The whirl of enemies blissfully crushing. (13)

p58

Homage to the one who strikes the ground

p59

With her palms and stamps her feet—

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Your brow deeply furrowed, with hūṃ you smash

p61

The seven netherworlds to nothing but dust. (14)

p62

Homage to the one, blissful, gracious and tranquil,

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Whose domain is the peace of nirvāṇa.

p64

With oṃ and svāhā in perfect union,

p65

You destroy every terrible evil. (15)

p66

Homage to the one, immersed in rapture,

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Who shatters the bodies of all foes.

p68

You manifest from the wisdom-syllable hūṃ,

p69

And display each of your mantra’s ten syllables. (16)

p70

Homage to Ture, her feet stomping boldly,

p71

Formed from the seed of the syllable hūṃ.

p72

The mountains of Meru, Mandara and Vindhya,

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And all the three worlds, you cause them to quake. (17)

p74

Homage to the one, who holds in her hand

p75

A deer-marked moon like a divine lake.

p76

With tāra twice and then with phaṭ,

p77

You totally cleanse all of the poisons. (18)

p78

Homage to the one, who is honored by kings

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Of hosts divine, gods and kiṃnaras;

p80

Clad in your armour of joy and splendour,

p81

You clear away nightmares, soothe away strife. (19)

p82

Homage to the one whose eyes shine with lustre,

p83

Bright with the fullness of the sun and moon;

p84

With twice-uttered hara and then with tuttāre

p85

You pacify even the cruelest of diseases. (20)

p86

Homage to the one with the power to free,

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Who puts forth the realities as a set of three.

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Supreme Ture, you completely destroy

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The hordes of grahas, vetālas, and yakṣas. (21)

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This Praise with the twenty-one verses of homage

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Is itself the root mantra.

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The wise who recite these words in earnest,

p93

Filled with genuine devotion for this goddess, (22)

p94

At dusk, and also having risen at dawn,

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With recollection, will be granted fearlessness;

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They will utterly eliminate all misdeeds,

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And surmount all evil destinies. (23)

p98

Seventy million victorious buddhas

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Will swiftly confer empowerment upon them,

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And they will attain greatness in this world,

p101

And reach the ultimate state of buddhahood. (24)

p102

Even the most powerful and toxic poisons,

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Which derive from plants or living beings,

p104

Whether eaten or taken as a draught,

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Will be purged entirely by recalling this praise. (25)

p106

Reciting this two or three or seven times

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Will eliminate multitudes of suffering

p108

Brought about by spirits, pestilence, and poison—

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And this applies even to other beings as well. (26)

p110

Those who wish for progeny will have them;

p111

Those who wish for riches will acquire them;

p112

Each and every wish will hereby be fulfilled,

p113

And obstacles, entirely vanquished, will be no more. (27)

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