Tara Space: Practice Texts
Online
Praises and Requests to the
Twenty-One Taras
A great resource: Tibetan text in English alphabet along with English translation.
Contributed by Richard Menninger. Includes:
- Taking refuge and generating the altruistic dedicated heart
- The Four Immeasurables
- Visualization
- Seven-limb prayer
- Homage to the twenty-one Taras
- The Condensed Praise
- Benefits of reciting the homage
- Requesting Prayer
- Dedication and Auspicious Verses
Praise and
Request to the Twenty-One Taras
Tibetan text in English alphabet along with English translation and commentary. Focuses
on the text to the twenty-one Taras, without including the practices that usually precede
and follow it.
Green Tara
Puja Commentary
By Khenpo Gyurmed Trinley Rinpoche. Mostly a commentary, but includes
visualization instructions and some mantras.
Invocation
to Tara
Given by Ontrul Rinpoche. A short Tibetan prayer in English alphabet along
with English translation.
Supplication
to Tara
By Atisha. A very short Tibetan prayer in English alphabet along with
English translation.
Prayers to Holy Tara
Short English prayers, but containing all the traditional elements for
Tara worship.
White
Tara Sadhana
An English-language practice.
Supplication
to Tara: The Seven Protectors
By Lord Jigten Gonpo. An English-language prayer illustrated by a number of
beautiful Tara images.
Praises
and Requests to the Twenty One Taras
From Ven. Thubten Chodron's Pearl of Wisdom, Book II. A somewhat
longer English-language practice.
Prostrations
and
Ways of
Prostrating in Tibetan Buddhism
Instructions for the prostrations that are often done at the start of
traditional Tibetan practices.
Some general Tibetan mantras (not Tara):
Mantras
Food
Blessing Prayer
Mantras
and Dharanis Page
Prayers
and Chants (Thubten Shedrup Ling's General Prayers)
Prayers and
Practices (Osel Shen Phen Ling)
Seven
Line Prayer to Guru Rimpoche
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