TARA DOURADA

Tara holding kumuda

The female figure probably Goddess Tara holding kumuda (white lotus) and a flower. Bas-relief of lower outer wall of 8th century AD Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia

Goddess Tara image from Bhot Bagan Math

This is the famous Goddess Tara image from Bhot Bagan Math, probably the first Tibetan monastery in Calcutta, India, now in ruins, built by 3rd Panchen Rinpoche Lobsang Palden Yeshe in 1776 AD. It was stolen in 2007. The authority was able to recover it.

A CONDENSED PRAYER OF THE PRAISE TO (THE TWENTY-ONE) TARA

A CONDENSED PRAYER OF THE PRAISE TO (THE TWENTY-ONE) TARA

Om Jetsun Ma PagMa Drölma La ChagTsäl Lo. 
Om! In front of the Supreme and Superior Liberator, I prostrate.

ChagTsäl DrolMa TARE PaMo - TUTTARA Yi DjigKun SelMa 
I prostrate in front of Tara TARE the Heroic - By TUTTARA all the fear are eliminated

TURE DönNam TamTchä TerMa - SOHA YiGer TchäLa RabDü 
TURE grant the entire comprehension - (With) SOHA I greet with reverence the letters (of the Mantra).

This come from a time when Incomparable Noble Lord, Palden Atisha, in a province of Nyethang, being sick, had requested Arya Tara to obtain a method in order to remain in good health. The Venerable Tara said to do every day ten thousand prayers to Tara in twenty-one praise. Like this it has been professed. Jowo Atisha said in one day he was not able to do so and did the request to get an other method. Like this it has been said. In response, with lot of benediction, Arya Tara has transmitted directly this prayer to Tara highly condensed.

Picture: Jowo Atisha's Talking Tara from Nyethang Drolma Lhakhang (that I have posted earlier).

MANDALA DE TARA

Yuthok Yonden Gonpo

Is this Arya Tara? No, this is an extraordinary and beautiful statue for Yuthok Yonden Gonpo, created by Rajesh Shakya.

Yuthok Yonden Gonpo is widely regarded as the main founder of Tibetan medicine, mostly based on his composition of the Four Medical Tantras. His other important contribution to Tibetan culture was the Yuthok Nyingthik, whose full name is the Yuthok Nyingthik Guru Sādhanā, ‘Compassionate Sunlight for Dispersing Suffering’s Darkness’ (g.yu thog snying thig bla sgrub sdug bsngal mun sel nyi ma’i ’od zer), which is the main Tantric Buddhist practice-cycle associated with Tibetan medicine. It is traditionally considered to be an important spiritual component of healing in Tibetan medical culture, and moreover is regarded in all Tibetan Buddhist traditions as a very special method for attaining awakening and realization quickly.

ALTAR DAS 21 TARAS SINGAPURA

21 Taras Shrine at Tibetan Buddhist Studies Society, Lor 15 Geylang, founded by Lhatse Tulku Rinpoche from Palyul Nyingma tradition who has taught in Singapore for twenty over years.