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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