No.14 Emanation of Taras - The Black Tara, Tronyer Chenma (14/21)

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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.14 Black Taras - Tronyer Chenma

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE HUNG HUNG HAM SHAM TRIG NAN PHAT SVAHA

Frowning Lady, Destroying Evil of the Nine Kinds of Harm-Doers, Eight Classes of Spirits, and Obstructing Forces

Tronyer Chenma or known as the Black Tara and she is the Tara who protects practitioners from evil spirits, black magic, negative karma and heavy obstacles.

Tronyer Chenma is wrathful, frowning, and black like dense rain clouds. With the roaring sound of HUNG she radiates light and flaming vajras that split the heads of negative forces and demons causing them to fall unconscious in the state of dharmata (suchness). Upon her utpala flower is a pestle. Her hands and feet strike the earth, stamping out ignorance and causing the ground to tremble.

Tronyer Chenma is known as Thronyer Chen. She is dark rain-clouds color. The trainer is “frowning, wrathful”, so she is the very wrathful, frowning one. She is a special emanation of Tara, whose activity is removing subtle obstacles due to misleading influences, which are usually our most stubborn obstacles. She deals with our last “wrinkles” or, we might say, the last two percent of our delusions, deep within the elemental nature of human beings.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady

Chhag tshal sa zhii ngo la chhag gi

Homage to you, Tara, with hand on the ground by your side

Thil gyi nun ching zhab kyi dung ma

Pressing your heel and stamping your foot on the earth

Thro nyer chan dza 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

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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