PUJA DE TARA

PUJA DE TARA



INVOCATION

PO-TA LA-YI NÄ-CHOG-NÄ
From your sublime abode at the Potala
TAM-YIG JANG-KU LÄ-TRUNG-SHING
O Tara - born from the green letter TAM
TAM-YIG Ö-KYI DRO-WA-DRÖL
Whose light rescues all beings -
DRÖL-MA KOR-CHÄ SHEG-SU-SÖL
Come with your retinue, I beg you.


PROSTRATION

LHA-DANG LHA-MIN CHÖ-PÄN-GYI
The gods and the demi-gods bow their crowns
ZHAB-KYI PÄ-MO LA-DÜ-NÄ
To your lotus feet, O Tara,
PONG-PA KÜN-LÄ DRÖL-DZÄ-MA
You who rescue all who are destitute.
DRÖL-MA YUM-LA CHAG-TSEL-LO
To you, Mother Tara, I pay homage.


HOMAGE TO THE TWENTY-ONE TARAS

OM JE-TSÜN-MA PAG-MA DRÖL-MA-LA CHAG-TSEL-LO
OM Homage to the Venerable Arya Tara

CHAG-TSEL DRÖL-MA NYUR-MA PAA-MO
Homage to you, Tara, the swift heroine,
CHÄN-NI KÄ-CHIG LOG-DANG DRA-MA
Whose eyes are like an instant flash of lightning,
JIG-TEN SUM-GÖN CHU-KYE SHÄL-GYI
Whose water-born face arises from the blooming lotus
GEY-SAR JE-WA LÄ-NI JUNG-MA
Of Avalokiteshvara: protector of the three worlds.

CHAG-TSEL TÖN-KÄI DA-WA KÜN-TU
Homage to you, Tara, whose face is like
GANG-WA GYA-NI TSEG-PAI SHÄL-MA
One hundred full autumn moons gathered together,
KAR-MA TONG-TRAG TSOG-PA NAM-KYI
Blazing with the expanding light
RAB-TU CHE-WAI Ö-RAB BAR-MA
Of a thousand stars assembled.

CHAG-TSEL SER-NGO CHU-NÄ KYE-KYI
Homage to you, Tara, born from a golden-blue lotus,
PÄ-ME CHAG-NI NAM-PAR GYÄN-MA
Whose hands are beautifully adorned with lotus flowers,
JIN-PA TSON-DRÜ KAA-TUB ZHI-MA
You who are the embodiment of giving, joyous effort, asceticism,
ZÖ-PA SAM-TÄN CHÖ-YUL NYI-MA
Pacification, patience, concentration and all objects of practice.

CHAG-TSEL DE-ZHIN SHEG-PAI TSUG-TOR
Homage to you, Tara, the crown pinnacle of those thus gone,
TAA-YÄ NAM-PAR GYEL-WAR CHÖ-MA
Whose deeds overcome infinite evils,
MA-LÜ PA-RÖL CHIN-PA TOB-PAI
Who have attained transcendent perfections without exception,
GYEL-WAI SÄ-KYI SHIN-TU TEN-MA
And upon whom the sons of the Victorious Ones rely.

CHAG-TSEL TÜT-TAA-RA HUM YIG-GE
Homage to you, Tara, who with the letters TUTTARA HUM
DÖ-DANG CHOG-DANG NAM-KAA GANG-MA
Fill the (realms of) desire, direction and space,
JIG-TEN DÜN-PO ZHAB-KYI NÄN-TE
Whose feet trample on the seven worlds
LÜ-PA ME-PAR GUG-PAR NÜ-MA
And who are able to draw all the beings to you.

CHAG-TSEL GYA-JIN ME-LHA TSANG-PA
Homage to you, Tara, venerated by Indra, Agni,
LUNG-LHA NA-TSOG WONG-CHUG CHÖ-MA
Brahma, Vayu and Ishvara,
JUNG-PO RO-LANG DRI-ZA NAM-DANG
Praised by the assembly of spirits, raised corpses,
NÖ-JIN TSOG-KYI DÜN-NÄ TÖ-MA
Ghandarvas and all yakshas.

CHAG-TSEL TRÄ-CHE JA-DANG PE-KYI
Homage to you, Tara, whose TRAD and PHAT
PA-RÖL TRÜL-KOR RAB-TU JOM-MA
Destroy entirely the magical wheels of others.
YÄ-KUM YÖN-KYANG ZHAB-KYI NÄN-TE
With your right leg bent and left outstretched and pressing,
ME-BAR TRAG-PA SHIN-TU BAR-MA
You burn intensely within a whirl of fire.

CHAG-TSEL TU-RE JIG-PA CHEN-PO
Homage to you, Tara, the great fearful one,
DÜ-KYI PAA-WO NAM-PAR JOM-MA
Whose letter TURE destroys the mighty demons completely,
CHU-KYE SHEL-NI TRO-NYER DÄN-DZÄ
Who with a wrathful expression on your water-born face
DRA-WO TAM-CHÄ MA-LÜ SÖ-MA
Slay all enemies without an exception.

CHAG-TSEL KON-CHOG SUM-TSÖN CHAG-GYAI
Homage to you, Tara, whose fingers adorn your heart
SOR-MÖ TUG-KAR NAM-PAR GYÄN-MA
With a gesture of the Sublime Precious Three,
MA-LÜ CHOG-KYI KOR-LÖ GYÄN-PAI
Adorned with a wheel striking all directions without exception
RANG-GI Ö-KYI TSOG-NAM TRUG-MA
With the totality of your own rays of light.

CHAG-TSEL RAB-TU GAA-WA JI-PAI
Homage to you, Tara, whose radiant crown ornament,
U-GYÄN Ö-KYI TRENG-WA PEL-MA
Joyful and magnificent, extends a garland of light,
ZHÄ-PA RAB-ZHÄ TÜT-TAA-RA-YI
And who, by your laughter of TUTTARA,
DÜ-DANG JIG-TEN WONG-DU DZE-MA
Conquer the demons and all of the worlds.

CHAG-TSEL SA-ZHI KYONG-WAI TSOG-NAM
Homage to you, Tara, who are able to invoke
TAM-CHÄ GUK-PAR NÜ-MA NYI-MA
The entire assembly of local protectors,
TRO-NYER YÖ-WAI YI-GE HUM-GI
Whose wrathful expression fiercely shakes,
PONG-PA TAM-CHÄ NAM-PAR DRÖL-MA
Rescuing the impoverished through the letter HUM.

CHAG-TSEL DA-WAI DUM-BU U-GYÄN
Homage to you, Tara, whose crown is adorned
GYÄN-PA TAM-CHAY SHING-TU BAR-MA
With the crescent moon, wearing ornaments exceedingly bright;
RÄL-PAI TRÖ-NA Ö-PAG ME-LÄ
From your hair knot the Buddha Amitabha
DAK-PAR SHIN-TU Ö-RAB DZE-MA
Radiates eternally with great beams of light.

CHAG-TSEL KÄL-PAI TA-MAI ME-TAR
Homage to you, Tara, who dwell within a blazing garland
BAR-WAI TRENG-WAI Ü-NA NÄ-MA
That resembles the fire at the end of this world age;
YÄ-KYANG YÖN-KUM KÜN-NÄ KOR-GAI
Surrounded by joy, you sit with right leg extended
DRA-YI PUNG-NI NAM-PAR JOM-MA
And left withdrawn, completely destroying all the masses of enemies.

CHAG-TSEL SA-ZHI NGÖ-LA CHAG-GI
Homage to you, Tara, with hand on the ground by your side,
TIL-GYI NÜN-CHING ZHAB-KYI DUNG-MA
Pressing your heel and stamping your foot on the earth;
TRO-NYER CHÄN-DZÄ YI-GE HUM-GI
With a wrathful glance from your eyes you subdue
RIM-PA DUN-PO NAM-NI GEM-MA
All seven levels through the syllable HUM.

CHAG-TSEL DE-MA GE-MA SHI-MA
Homage to you, Tara, O happy, virtuous and peaceful one,
NYA-NGÄN DÄ-ZHI CHÖ-YÜL NYI-MA
The very object of practice, passed beyond sorrow.
SO-HA OM-DANG YANG-DAG DÄN-PÄ
You are the perfectly endowed with SOHA and OM,
DIG-PA CHEN-PO JOM-PA NYI-MA
Overcoming completely all the great evils.

CHAG-TSEL KÜN-NÄ KOR-RAB GAA-WAI
Homage to you, Tara, surrounded by the joyous ones,
DRA-YI LÜ-NI NAM-PAR GEM-MA
You completely subdue the bodies of all enemies;
YIG-GE CHU-PAI NGAG-NI KÖ-PAI
Your speech is adorned with the ten syllables
RIG-PA HUM-LÄ DRÖL-MA NYI-MA
And you rescue all through the knowledge-letter HUM.

CHAG-TSEL TU-RE ZHAB-NI DAB-PÄ
Homage to you, Tara, stamping your feet and proclaiming TURE,
HUM-GI NAM-PAI SA-BON NYI-MA
Your seed-syllable itself in the aspect of HUM
RI-RAB MAN-DA RA-DANG BIG-JE
Cause Meru, Mandhara and Vindhya mountains
JIG-TEN SUM-NAM YO-WA NYI-MA
And all the three worlds to tremble and shake.

CHAG-TSEL LHA-YI TSO-YI NAM-PAI
Homage to you, Tara, who hold in your hand
RI-DAG TAG-CHÄN CHAG-NA NAM-MA
The hare-marked moon like the celestial ocean;
TARA NYI-JÖ PÄ-KYI YI-GE
By uttering TARA twice and the letter PHAT
DUG-NAM MA-LU PA-NI SEL-MA
You dispel all poisons without exception.

CHAG-TSEL LHA-YI TSOG-NAM GYÄL-PO
Homage to you, Tara, upon whom the kings of the assembled gods,
LHA-DANG MI-AM CHI-YI TEN-MA
The gods themselves and all probable-humans rely;
KÜN-NÄ GO-CHA GAA-WA JI-GYI
Whose magnificent armour gives joy to all,
TSÖ-DANG MI-LAM NGÄN-PA SEL-MA
You who dispel all disputes and bad dreams.

CHAG-TSEL NYI-MA DA-WA GYÄ-PAI
Homage to you, Tara, whose two-eyes - the sun and the moon -
CHÄN-NYI PO-LA Ö-RAB SÄL-MA
Radiate an excellent, illuminating light;
HARA NYI-JÖ TÜT-TAA-RA-YI
By uttering HARA twice and TUTTARA
ZHIN-TU DRAG-POI RIM-NÄ SEL-MA
You dispel all violent epidemic diseases.

CHAG-TSEL DE-NYI SUM-NAM KÖ-PÄ
Homage to you, Tara, adorned by the three suchnesses,
ZHI-WAI TU-DANG YANG-DAG DÄN-MA
Perfectly endowed with the power of serenity,
DÖN-DANG RO-LANG NÖ-JIN TSOG-NAM
You who destroy the host of evil spirits, raised corpses and yakshas
JOM-PA TU-RE RAB-CHOG NYI-MA
O TURE, most excellent and sublime!

TSA-WAI NGAG-KYI TÖ-PA DI-DANG
Thus concludes this praise of the root mantra
CHAG-TSEL WA-NI NYI-SHU TSA-CHIG
And the offering of the twenty-one homages.

(recite the twenty-one homages three times)

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA
(recite the mantra as many times as possible)