No.9 Emanation of Taras - Sengdeng Nagchi Drolma (9/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No.9 Taras - Sengdeng Nagchi Drolma

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE DANA TRAYA SVAHA

Noble Lady Tara of the Teak Forest Who Protects from All Fears

Sengdeng Nagchi Drolma is peaceful and blue green like an emerald. She protects beings from the eight great fears, this form of Green Tara protects from the twofold eight fears and each of which have an outer and inner aspect: 

1) Elephants/delusion and ignorance

2) Lions/pride and arrogance

3) Snakes/jealousy

4) Thieves/false views

5) Bondage/avarice and miserliness

6) Water/attachment and desire

7) Fire/hatred and anger

8) Demons/doubts. 

A Dharma wheel is displayed on the lotus by Tara’s left ear. Upon her utpala flower is a universal wheel blazing with turbulent light that tames beings by means appropriate to their needs. The sengdeng is a very large tree, known as teak in English. Some trees are considered peaceful and others wrathful; sengdeng is known as a wrathful tree. In Tibet Damaru and chdd drums are made from this strong, dense wood. So there are frequent references to sengdeng Damaru.

In Tibetan medicine the bark and resin are used to make a tea considered very beneficial for the blood. As nag means "forest," she is the Green Tara of the sengdeng forest.

OM jetsun ma pak ma drol ma la chak tsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chak tsal kon chok sum tson chak gye

Homage to you beautifully adorned

Sor mo tuk kar nam par gyen ma

By the Three Jewels’ gesture at your heart

Ma lu chok kyi khor lo gyen pe

Your wheel shines in all directions

Rang gi od kyi tsok nam truk ma

With a whirling mass of light

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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May it arise and not decrease

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Dedication of Merit

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Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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No.8 Emanation of Taras - Zhengyi Migyalma (8/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No.  8 Taras - Zhengyi Migyalma

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE DAHA PATSA HUNG PHAT SVAHA

Invincible Heroine Who Destroys Criticism and Harm

Zhengyi Migyalma  is wrathful and dark red in color. Her compassion is as swift as lightning, and she completely destroys the four demons. Upon her utpala flower is a Vajra and blazing with fire. Sparks radiate outward, completely burning, scattering, and destroying demons, disturbing emotions, argument-makers, lawsuits, and other troubles.

Zhengyi Migyalma’s name roughly translated means “invincible lady”. You can’t win against her. So, if you’re a mara or a demon, better leave her alone! Or better yet, be nice to her. This Tara can also protect against troublemakers, persons who criticize and harass others, and people who bring lawsuits.

Chhag tshal TURE jig pa chhen po

Homage to you, Tara, the great fearful one

Du kyi pa wo nam par jom ma

Whose letter TURE destroys the mighty demons completely

Chhu kye zhal ni thro nyer dan dza

Who with a wrathful expression on your water-born face

Dra wo tham cha ma lu so ma

Slay all enemies without an exception

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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No.7 Emanation of Taras - Zhengyi Mitubma (7/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No. 7 Taras - Zhengyi Mitubma 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE VAJRA TAKA HANA LITSA PHAT SVAHA

Unconquerable Fierce Lady Who Dispels Wars and Natural Disasters

Zhengyi Mitubma is the seventh Tara and known as Zhengyi Mitumba. She is dark blue in color. Her name means “unconquerable, cannot be defeated by others.” She destroys all negativities. She is wrathful and eliminates wars, invading troops, and weapons of mass destruction. She destroys the evil deeds, spells of enemies, hailstorm, lightning, and all kinds of natural disasters.

Zhengyi Mitubma  is wrathful and black, like dense storm clouds. By the ripping sound of the wrathful seed syllable TRET and the splitting sound of PHAT, she completely destroys the spells of enemies, evil deeds, hail, lightning, natural disasters, invading troops, and weapons of mass destruction. Upon her utpala flower is a sword blazing with fire. She is ablaze with masses of wisdom fire. From her compassionate furrowed brow flies meteors and sparks.

OM jetsun ma phag ma drol ma la chhag tshal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chhag tshal TRAD che ja dang PHAT kyi

Homage to you, Tara, whose TRAT and PHAT

Pha rol thrul khor rab tu jom ma

Destroy entirely the magical wheels of others

Ya kum yon kyang zhab kyi nan te

With your right leg bent and left outstretched and pressing,

Me bar thrug pa shin tu bar ma

You burn intensely within a whirl of fire

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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No.6 Emanation of Taras - Jigje Chenmo (6/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No. 6 Taras - Jigje Chenmo 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA BIGHNEN BAM HUNG PHAT SVAHA

Great Terrifying Lady Who Completely Destroys Negativity

The name of sixth Tara is Jigje Chenmo. She is dark red in color. Jigje means “fierce, frightening” and Chenmo means “Great One”, so this Tara is great, fierce Tara. She is renowned for protecting against any negative force we feel is disturbing us, whether it is due to invisible beings and negativities or visible obstacles.

Jigje Chenmo she is worshipped and praised by all, and her power subdues all negative forces. Upon her utpala flower is an indestructible phurba, a ritual dagger that subdues negativity, surrounded by blazing lassoes of flames and sparks. This turbulent fire and its natural sound, HUNG, split the heads of demons and obstructing spirits who cause delusion, insanity, and memory loss, rendering them unconscious in the state of suchness, never to rise again.

Om jetsun ma phag ma drol ma la chhag tshal lo

OM Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chhag tshal gya jin me lha tshang pa

Homage to you adored by Agni, Brahma, 

Jung lha na tshog wang chhug chho ma

Vayu, and Ishvara

Jung po ro lang dri za nam dang

And praised by the assembly of spirits, raised corpses,

Nojin tshog kyi dun na to ma

Gandharvas, and all yakshas.

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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No.5 Emanation of Tara - Wangdu Rigje Lhamo (5 /21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No. 5 Taras - Wangdu Rigje Lhamo (Kurukulle) 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE KURU KULLE NRI DZA SVAHA

Magnetizing Goddess of Vedic Knowledge

Wangdu Rigje Lhamo (Kurukulle) is is semi-wrathful and red in color. She is Kurukulle in Sanskrit and Rigjema or Rigje Lhamo in Tibetan.  Wangdu means the power of “gathering, summoning”, or “magnetizing”. 

We can think of it as attracting everything beneficial, to benefit all beings. Rigje means “she who precisely understands everything”. And Lhamo is “divine lady”. So she is red Tara, who precisely understands the power of magnetizing. Kurukulle‘s practice is very extensively taught throughout Tibetan Buddhism. She is often named the “Red Tara” because of her color.

The mantra TUTTARE blazes with rainbow light. Its sound magnetizes and conquers through the power arising from the union of emptiness and compassion. Upon her utpala flower is a bow and arrow poised to shoot sharp rays of light that destroy arrogant pride. She effortlessly accomplishes the four enlightened actions: pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and subduing.

Om Jetsunma pakma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om homage to the noble lady Tara

Chag Tshal Tut Ta Ra Hung Yi Ge

Homage to you, Tara, who with the letters TUTTARA and HUM

Do dang chog dang nam kha cang ma

Fill the (realms of) desire, direction, and space

Jig ten dun po zhab kyi nan te

Whose feet trample on the seven worlds

Lu pa me par gug par nu ma

And who are able to draw all beings to you

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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No.4 Emanation of Taras - Tsugtor Namgyalma Ushnishavijaya (4/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No. 4 Taras - Tsugtor Namgyalma (Ushnishavijaya)

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE AYUR DATE BHRUM SVAHA

Victorious One of Ushnisha Who Accomplishes Immortality

Tsugtor Namgyalma (Ushnishavijaya) is peaceful and golden yellow in color. She emanates from the crown chakra of the Buddha as Prajnaparamita. She is victorious over all non-virtue and afflictive emotions. Upon her utpala flower is a vase of immortality that radiates light in the ten directions. 

This light transforms the radiant essence of Samsara and nirvana into nectar that fills her vase. The vase of nectar supported by the utpala flower to her left indicates her ability to increase life force, vitality and longevity by decreasing imbalances and reestablishing equanimity. She also protects beings from scenarios of unfavourable rebirth.

Om Jetsunma pakma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chaktsal dezhin shegpal tsug-tor

Homage to you, Tara, the crown pinnacle of those thus gone

Tha ya nam par gyal war cho ma

Whose deeds overcome infinite evils

Ma lu pha rol chhin pa thob pai

Who have attained transcendent perfections without exception

Gyal wai sa kyi shin tu ten ma

And upon whom the sons of the Victorious Ones rely.

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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No.3 Emanation of Taras - Sermo Sonam Tobkye (3/21)

Photo Credit: Alan Kozlowski

Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No. 3 Taras - Sermo Sonam Tobkye

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAHA PUNYE SVAHA

Golden One Who Increases the Power of Merit

Sermo Sonam Tobkye is peaceful and golden in color. Sonam means “merit”. It is also often translated as “good fortune, prosperity” or even “luck”. Tob is the Tibetan word which means “power, the ability”, and che means “increasing” or “liberator. This is the meaning of Sermo Sonam Tobkye amd there are other very popular names for her are Vasudhari in Sanskrit and Norjunma in Tibetan. 

Her body radiates light the color of the rising sun, empowering practitioners to enact oceans of Bodhisattva activities. She bestows wealth and longevity and liberates beings through the six paramitas: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative stability, and transcendent wisdom. She has one face and two arms. She sits in the dis- mounting posture. Her right hand is in the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand, in the Three Jewels mudra, holds an utpala flower. Upon her utpala flower is a wish fulfilling-jewel that showers down whatever one desires.

She is beautiful; her skin is the color of pure gold glittering in the early morning sun. Her left hand is adorned with a blue lotus, upon which sits a gem that bestows all wishes. She is the lord of the Bodhisattvas’ sphere of activity, which encompasses the transcendent perfections of generosity, patience, diligence, ethics, tranquility, wisdom, and meditation. Austerity, (in this context) is ethics, and tranquility is wisdom and meditation.

We pay homage to the unchallengeable lady who has the ten powers: the power over life, the power over the mind, the power over wealth, the power over action, the power over birth, the power over inclination, the power over aspiration, the power over miracles, the power over primordial wisdom, and the power over Dharma. 

She has attained the completion of the six perfections, in just one meditation. The inner meaning is that her singular meditation is like a lotus, free from the flaw of adherence to subject and object, and is endowed with the completion of the six perfections.

The effect of practicing on this Tara of prosperity is not just that we will acquire external or material wealth, but also that we will develop inner or spiritual wealth. By practicing on Tara Sonam Tobkye, we can develop both forms of wealth.

Om jetsunma pakma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chaktsal ser ngo chu ne kye kyi

Homage to you, graced with lotus-like hands

Peme chak ni nampar gyenma

And a water-born flower blue-gold in hue

Jinpa tsondru katub shyiwa

You who show generosity, diligence, strength

Zopa samten choyul nyima

Patience, serenity and meditation

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.

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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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