No.15 Emanation of Taras - Rabzhima (15/21)

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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. 15 Taras - Rabzhima 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA PAPAM GATE GATE SVAHA

Perfectly Calm One, Pacifying Evil Deeds and Obscurations

Tara Rabzhima’s special activity is purifying our most serious errors and greatest obscurations, so she is called the Tara of purification. Rabzhima means “supremely peaceful”. She is white in color sitting in blue lotus.

Tara Rabzhima is peaceful, white like the full moon, and smiling. Upon her utpala flower is an anointing vase filled with nectar. Countless purifying goddesses holding anointing vases emanate from her heart. The light that radiates from her, and the bath bestowed by the emanated goddesses, washes away all evil deeds and obscurations that cause rebirth in the lower realms.

Tara Rabzhima is also known as the Tara of purification. Rabzhima means “supremely peaceful,” and parallel to that, her special activity is purifying our serious errors and greater obscurations. With the supreme bodhichitta motivation, we visualize Tara in a rich white color, like the full autumn moon. Her expression is peaceful and smiling, and she holds a blue lotus wherein there is a vase in the center; it is filled with nectar anointing.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady

Chhag tshal de ma ge ma zhi ma

Homage to you, Tara, O happy, virtuous, and peaceful one

Nya ngan da zhi cho yul nyi ma

The very object of practice, passed beyond sorrow

SVAHA OM dang yang dag dan pa

You are perfectly endowed with SOHA and OM

Dig pa chhen po jom pa nyi ma

Overcoming completely all the great evils

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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