[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Hymns, epistles and poetry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra) › [Praises of Tārā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara) › [Tārādevīnāmāṣṭaśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka) › [ལྷ་མོ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo) › [The Hundred and Eight Names of the Goddess Tara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000) › intro.2 # ལྷ་མ་སྒྲལ་མའ་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.2 The Hundred and Eight Names of the Goddess Tārā intro.2 - **Language:** English ### [intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro.2) This sūtra opens with an homage to the goddess Tārā, to whom the text is dedicated. Tārā immediately pronounces a dhāraṇī in front of an audience of gods, asuras, and spirits of various types. Awed by Tārā’s presence, they all praise her powers. In the central portion of the sūtra, the assembled beings offer homage and praise to Tārā in the form of a list of epithets of the goddess. At the end of this recitation, Tārā responds with some words of encouragement and gives a brief teaching on the path to liberation as well as on the importance of applying unwavering effort to cross over the ocean of cyclic existence. The text concludes with Tārā extolling the power of the dhāraṇī she previously pronounced, detailing its salvific effects, and praising those who uphold it. At the end of the sūtra, the audience is filled with joy, and we are told that their speech has been completely stilled. - [Previous: intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro.1) - [Next: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.tara.taradevinamastasataka*bo~en-84000.intro.2) · Pramāṇa