The Abbreviated Four-Mandala Ritual to Chittamani Tara

 

The Abbreviated Four-Mandala Ritual to Chittamani Tara

From the enlightened activities of all the victorious ones the

TAM syllable melts into a turquoise flow.

By the swirls of a musical show appear your youthful great body.

With respect, I pay homage to her who liberates from the fears of existence and peace.

With your compassion, please take care of me.

Taking Refuge DAG DANG DRO WA NAM KHÄI THA DANG NYAM PÄI SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ DÜ DI NÄ ZUNG TE JI SI JANG CHHUB NYING PO LA CHHI KYI BAR DU I and all sentient beings as vast as space, from now until we Reach the essence of supreme enlightenment,

PÄL DÄN LA MA DAM PA NAM LA KYAB SU CHHI WO Go for refuge to the glorious pure lamas;

DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ CHOM DÄN DÄ NAM LA KYAB SU CHHI WO Go for refuge to the perfectly enlightened victorious ones;

DAM PÄI CHHÖ NAM LA KYAB SU CHHI WO Go for refuge to the pure Dharma;

PHAG PÄI GE DÜN NAM LA KYAB SU CHHI WO (3x or 7x) Go for refuge to the superior Sangha. (3x or 7x)

Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhichitta

SANG GYÄ CHHÖ DANG TSHOG KYI CHHOG NAM LA I go for refuge until I am enlightened.

JANG CHHUB BAR DU DAG NI KYAB SU CHHI To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly.

DAG GI JIN SOG GYI PE DI DAG GI By my practice of giving and other perfections

DRO LA PHÄN CHHIR SANG GYÄ DRUB PAR SHOG (3x) May I become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings. (3x)

Special Bodhichitta

KHYÄ PAR MA SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ KYI DÖN DU NYUR WA NYUR WAR YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ KYI GO PHANG RIN PO CHHE CHI NÄ KYANG THOB PAR JA / DEI CHHIR DU JE TSÜN MA PHAG MA DRÖL MÄI NÄL JOR NYAM SU LANG WAR GYI WO

In particular, in order to benefit all my mother sentient beings quickly and more quickly, I must achieve the precious state of perfect and complete buddhahood; therefore, I am going to undertake the yoga of venerable Arya Tara.

The Four Immeasurables

SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ DE WA DANG DE WÄI GYU DANG DÄN PAR GYUR CHIG May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ DUG NGÄL DANG DUG NGÄL GYI GYU DANG DRÄL WAR GYUR CHIG May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ DUG NGÄL ME PÄI DE WA DANG MI DRÄL WAR GYUR CHIG

May all sentient beings be inseparable from the happiness that is free from suffering.

SEM CHÄN THAM CHÄ NYE RING CHHAG DANG NYI DANG DRÄL WÄI

TANG NYOM LA NÄ PAR GYUR CHIG.

May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free from desire For friends and hatred for enemies.

[Make sure your mind is infused with the four immeasurable Thoughts]

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May it arise and not decrease

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Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Goddess Marici - The Ray of Light Bodhisattva 摩利支天菩薩

Marici — “Ray of Light” Bodhisattva Goddess — protective Bodhisattva for “turbulent times”; the aspect of glorious Mother Tara.

Marici’s most popular praise, written by the great Vidyadhara Jigdral Lingpa, states her most important role is  “to bring protection from fear in these turbulent times.”

The turbulent times referred to were centuries ago, and sadly, we still need the powerful protection of Marici, the emanation of Tara. Her Dharani, most effective in these difficult times, was proclaimed by Shakyamuni Buddha in the Dharani of Marica, spoken by the Buddha.

Marici, the ray of light, the glorious Bodhisattva Goddess of compassion who rides a boar, is an aspect of Tara in most Tibetan traditions. She is revealed as the 21st Tara in some Nyingma traditions. In the Surya Gupta tradition, she is the attendant of the 9th Tara along with Ekajati (in this context they are considered aspects of Tara.)

The greatest enemy of the Maras

Marici Goddess of the Dawn is the “enemy of the Maras” and an important Mahayana and Vajrayana Enlightened Deity. 

She is called the “great enemy of the Maras” — due to her well-known protective role. In this beautiful Tibetan praise, her protective aspects are acclaimed — by the Vidyadhara Jigdral Lingpa:

Om, lhamo özer chenma la chaktsal lo

Om, Homage to the goddess Marici.

Chaktsal du kyi du dra chenmo

Homage to her, the great enemy of the maras.

Zhen gyi mitub nampar jomma

Utterly invincible, vanquisher of all,

Nyima dawe dun ne dro zhing

She who travels before the sun and moon,

Chusin gyaltsen nampar troma

And drives away Makaradhvaja, God of Desire,

Khyo la solwa tabpa tsam gyi

Simply by praying to you,

Dra yi pung ni nampar chom shik

May the hosts of opposing forces be destroyed!

Se dang ye dang tre mong jerwe

Slay them, divide them, drive them away, confuse them and disperse them,

Chok le namgyal ngodrub tsol chik

And grant us the siddhi of total victory over all adversity!

Ray of Light — shining light of protection

Marici “Ray of Light” in Chinese: 摩利支天菩薩; Japanese: Marishiten, Marici is a Buddhist Devi or Enlightened goddess, as well as a Bodhisattva associated with light and the Sun. She is typically depicted with multiple arms and riding a charging boar or sow, or on a fiery chariot pulled by seven horses or seven boars. 

She has either one head, or between three to six with one shaped like a boar. In parts of East Asia, in her fiercest forms, she may wear a necklace of skulls. In some representations, she sits upon a lotus flower.

Maric is popular in Japan, China, Korea, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. In Japan she is also known as Bari Kannon (摩利観音). In China she is also known as Moli Tian or Boli Tian. In Korea she is also known as Bulmujongwon-bosal.

In the Dharani sutra of Marici, her benefits are recited by the Buddha [for the full text, including Sanskrit of this Dharani, see section below]:

“Oṃ, goddess Marici, please protect me on the road!

Please protect me from taking wrong paths!

Please protect me from dangerous beings!

Please protect me from the danger of tyrants!

Please protect me from the danger of elephants!

Please protect me from the danger of thieves!

Please protect me from the danger of nagas!

Please protect me from the danger of lions!

Please protect me from the danger of tigers!

Please protect me from the danger of fire!

Please protect me from the danger of water!

Please protect me from the danger of snakes!

Please protect me from the danger of poison!

Please protect me from the danger of opponents and adversaries!”

A more wrathful manifestation of Marici. Marici is the “Enemy of the Maras” and protects from many dangers.

This is followed by her special Dharani of protection, spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha:

Tadyathā | oṃ vattālī vadālī varālī varāha-mukhī | sarva-duṣṭa-pra-duṣṭānāṃ cakṣur-mukhaṃ bandha bandha | bandha mukhaṃ jambhaya stambhaya mohaya svāhā | oṃ mārīcyai svāhā | oṃ varālī vadālī vattālī varāha-mukhī sarva-duṣṭa-pra-duṣṭānāṃ cakṣur-mukhaṃ bandha bandha svāhā 

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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