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"Preserving the Sacred Arts is always part of the preservation of Dharma" ~ Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche ~
This is a good quality 8 inch by 10 inch photo (not giclee) of White Tara. The photo was taken of a Tibetan Buddhist thangka from Nepal by Dev Lama. Suitable for framing and use on your altar or as a "deity card" for your practice. Please note, the cropping of the actual photo may be very slightly different.
Within Tibetan Buddhism Tārā
is regarded as a Boddhisattva of compassion and action. She is the
female aspect of Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig) and in some origin stories
she comes from his tears:
Then at last Avalokiteshvara arrived at the summit of Marpori, the 'Red Hill', in Lhasa.
Gazing out, he perceived that the lake on Otang, the 'Plain of Milk',
resembled the Hell of Ceaseless Torment. Myriads of being were
undergoing the agonies of boiling, burning, hunger, thirst, yet they
never perished, but let forth hideous cries of anguish all the while.
When Avalokiteshvara saw this, tears sprang to his eyes. A teardrop
from his right eye fell to the plain and became the reverend Bhrikuti,
who declared: 'Son of your race! As you are striving for the sake of
sentient beings in he Land of Snows,
intercede in their suffering, and I shall be your companion in this
endeavour!' Bhrikuti was then reabsorbed into Avalokiteshvara's right
eye, and was reborn in a later life as the Nepalese princess Tritsun. A
teardrop from his left eye fell upon the plain and became the reverend Tara. She also declared, 'Son of your race! As you are striving for the sake of sentient beings in he Land of Snows, intercede in their suffering, and I shall be your companion in this endeavour!' Tara
was also reabsorbed into Avalokiteshvara's left eye, and was reborn in
a later life as the Chinese princess Kongjo (Princess Wencheng)."
Tārā is also known as a saviouress, as a heavenly deity who hears the cries of beings experiencing misery in samsara.
The Tārā
figure originated not in Buddhism but in Hinduism, where she, Tārā, was
one of a number of Mother Goddess figures alongside Sarasvati, Lakshmi,
Parvati, and Shakti. In the 6th century C.E., during the era of the
Pala Empire, Tārā was adopted into
the Buddhist pantheon as an important bodhisattva figure just a few
centuries after the Prajnaparamita Sutra had been introduced into what
was becoming the Mahayana Buddhism of India. It would seem that the
feminine principle makes its first appearance in Buddhism as the
"Mother of Perfected Wisdom" and then later Tārā
comes to be seen as an expression of the compassion of perfected
wisdom. However, sometimes Tārā is also known as "the Mother of the
Buddhas", which usually refers to the enlightened wisdom of the
Buddhas, so in approaching Buddhist deities, one learns not to impose
totally strict boundaries about what one deity covers, as opposed to
another deity.
White Tara Sadhana The brimming nectar of immortality borne on the continuum of Wish-Fulfilling Wheel Holy White Tara.
Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta (three times)
I
take refuge until I am enlightened in the Buddha, the Dharma and the
Sangha. By the positive potential I create by practicing generosity and
the other far-reaching attitudes, may I attain Buddhahood in order to
benefit all sentient beings.
The Four Immeasurable Thoughts
May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes, May all sentient beings be free from suffering and its causes. May all sentient beings never be separated from sorrowless bliss. May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of bias, attachment and anger.
The Seven Limbs
Reverently I prostrate with my body speech and mind, And present clouds of every type of offering, actual and mentally-transformed I declare all my negative actions accumulated since beginningless time And rejoice in the virtues of all holy and ordinary beings. Please remain until cyclic existence ends And turn the wheel ofDharma for sentient beings I dedicate all the virtues of myself and others to the great enlightenment.
Outer Mandala
This ground, anointed with perfume, flowers strewn, Mount Meru, four lands, sun and moon, Imagined as a Buddha land and offered to you May all beings enjoy this pure land.
Inner Mandala
The
objects of attachment, aversion and ignorance – friends, enemies and
strangers, my body, wealth and enjoyments – I offer these without any
sense of loss. Please accept them with pleasure and inspire me and
others to be free from the three poisonous attitudes.
idam guru ratna mandala kam nirya tayami
(I send forth this jewelled mandala to you, precious gurus)
Emptiness meditation
om sobhawa shuddha sarva dharma sobhawa shuddho ham
(I am the embodiment of the purity of all subjective and objective phenomena.)
From
the sphere of emptiness appears a white lotus and on it a moon disc. On
that appears my own mind in the form of a white syllable tam which transforms into an utpala flower marked by tam.
This transforms into the self-generated, life-granting Arya Tara with
one face and two arms. Her right hand holds a utpala flower. In
youthful aspect, she is adorned with all the major and minor marks of a
tathagata and is endowed with seven eyes.
Screened by a full moon behind her, her three places are marked by three syllables om ah hum. From the seed syllable at her heart, light is emitted, inviting the wisdom beings and initiating deities.
The
wisdom beings merge inseparably with me; Tara, and the initiating
deities confer empowerment. By the overflow of nectar, my crown is
adorned with Amitayus. From the tam at my heart light is
emitted, activating the infinite nectar of longevity from beyond cyclic
existence and dissolving h back into my heart.
Mantra Recitation and Visualization
From the red hri
at Amitayus' heart, rays of red light shine out into the ten
directions, hooking back the essence of long life from all samsaric and
non-samsaric beings and from the four elements and also hooking back
all the life previously stolen by black magic and so forth. All this is
drawn into the nectar in the long life vase in Amitayus' lap. The
nectar increases endlessly and overflows into my crown and completely
fills my body
At my heart, in the tigle on the white tam,
sits my own guru (or anyone whose long life you want to pray for).
Surrounding him on a moon disc, are all sentient beings: enemies,
friends and strangers. Surrounding them, on the edge on the moon disc,
are the letters of the mantra:
om tare tuttare ture mama ayur punye jnyana pushtim kuru ye soha
The
nectar flowing through my body completely elminates from my guru (or
for whomever you are doing this practice) all hindrances to his/her
long life, (which are in fact my own karmic vision*). The nectar also
purifies the hindrances to life and the black karmic vision of all
sentient beings. At the same time, light from the letters of the mantra
fills my own Tara body and the bodies of all the sentient beings at my heart, especially of those practicing virtue in the three worlds
*This applies only to the appearance of sickness in regards to the guru.
While doing this visualization, repeat the mantra 21 times:
om tare tuttare ture mama ayur punye jnyana pushtim kuru ye soha
Then as often as you like:
om tare tuttare ture soha
Think
strongly: the hindrances that cause my guru to appear sick or that
prevent his holy wishes from being fulfilled are all purified. All
sentient beings are purified, and all human beings who are accumulating
virtue by just even taking refuge or by repeating om mani padme hum achieve long life.
Upon
seeing the signs of untimely death instantaneously, by clearly
beholding the holy body of the Wish- Fulfilling Wheel Tara, may I
intrepidly conquer the lord of death and swiftly attain the rank of an
immortal master of knowledge.
Dedication of Positive Potential
Due to this merit may I soon Attain the enlightened state of Arya Tara That I may be able to liberate All sentient beings from their suffering.
May the precious bodhi mind Not yet born arise and grow; May that born have no decline, But increase forever more.
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As a deep lake
Is clear and undisturbed,
So a sage becomes clear
Upon hearing the Dharma.
Virtuous people always let go.
They don’t prattle about pleasures and desires.
Touched by happiness and then by suffering,
The sage shows no sign of being elated or
depressed.
DHAMMAPADA
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