No.20 Emanation of Taras - Ritro Loma Gyonma / Parnashavari (20/21)

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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. 20 Taras - Ritro Loma Gyonma  / Parnashavari

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE NAMA TARE MANO HARA HUNG HARA SVAHA

Noble Lady of Mountain Retreat, Clothed in Leaves, Who Removes Contagious Diseases

Ritro Loma Gyonma is peaceful and yellow, red like saffron. Devotedly reciting her mantra dispels all deadly epidemics. Upon her utpala flower is a round vessel filled with nectar. Her eyes are like the sun and the full moon. From the sun of her right eye shines a radiant light, destroying all disease-bearing beings. From the moon of her left eye, a rich stream of nectar descends healing all forms of disease, including their causes and consequences. 

Ritro Loma Gyonma, Noble lady of mountain retreat , Clothed in Leaves. The twentieth of Atisha’s 21 Taras is saffron in colour and known for vanquishing infectious disease and sickness. Medicinal substances fill the vessel supported by her utpala flower, and her eyes restore and preserve the health of sentient beings with the light of the sun and the moon.

Ritro Loma Gyonma / * Parnasavari’s practice is very sacred and very supreme because it focuses specifically on purifying the karma and the causes that ravage our bodies with diseases. Diseases, illness and sickness are tremendous obstacles to our practice because sometimes we recover and sometimes we don’t recover from them.  

* Parnasavari’s practice specifically requires initiation from your Guru or master

And if we do not recover, we do not know when we will have another chance to achieve another precious human body to practice, meet our teachers, to believe, trust and develop spiritual maturity in order that we have confidence in our practice.

When we practice this deity, Ritro Loma Gyonma /  Parnasavari, it is specifically aimed at purifying karma that can harm our body, karma that can manifest diseases, or if we are sick and disease-ridden, this practice can help us heal in conjunction with the medicines we are taking. 

If we do this practice every single day, we can set up a simple altar to her or include her onto our existing altar.  It can be a statue, tsa tsa, picture or painting of her, or we could have an altar specifically for her. Either way, she is a fully enlightened Buddha so there is no conflict whatsoever.

During this time and age when our food is toxic, the air is toxic, the water is toxic and the ground is very polluted, many types of diseases arise that we never heard of in the past. Ritro Loma Gyonma or Parnasavari is extremely effective in combating new diseases, virulent diseases and diseases that are extremely contagious, dangerous and life threatening. 

Doing her practice not only heals diseases, but also creates the situation where we can accumulate merits through practicing the Six Paramitas. When we accumulate merits via the Six Paramitas, we also create the causes for ourselves to become a fully enlightened being in the future. Therefore, by practicing Ritro Loma Gyonma / Parnasavari it is definitely possible to plant the seeds and to create the causes for our full enlightenment in the future.

You can do her mantra every single day, one mala, one rosary or you can do more. It will be very good to do more of her mantra if you are very ill. It’s up to you how much you would like to do. After reciting her mantra, you can also blow on the medicines that you are going to consume orally or apply topically, as an extra blessing for the effectiveness of the medication. 

Om Jetsunma pal ma dolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chak tsal nyi ma da wa gye pe

Homage to you whose eyes, the sun and moon

Chen nyi po la o rab sal ma

Radiate with pure brilliant light

Ha ra nyi jo tut ta ra yi

Uttering HARA twice and TUTTARA

Shin tu drak po rim ne sel ma

Dispels extremely fearful plagues

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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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

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By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

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

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