The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Sacred Pledge with Verse of Aspiration

The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Sacred Pledge with Verse of Aspiration

༄༅།   །བྱམས་པས་དམ་བཅས་པའི་གཟུངས་སྨོན་ཚིག་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས། ། The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Sacred Pledge with Verses of Aspiration The prayer opens with a devotional hymn to the future buddha Maitreya followed by the dhāraṇī known as “Maitreya’s Sacred Pledge”. The dhāraṇī is said to convey

Praise to Tara

Praise to Tara

༄༅།  །སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།  ། Praise to Tārā This praise to Tārā is only partially translated. The main part of the text is still to be translated. Terms of Use This is a free publication and work may be copied or printed for

Goddess with Devotion

Goddess with Devotion

༄༅།  །ལྷ་མོ་ལ་གུས་མ་བཞུགས།  ། Goddess with Devotion A short prayer to Ārya Tārā professing the results of propitiating the goddess. These lines are included in the Sakya-pa version of the Four-Maṇḍala Rite of Ārya Tārā. Terms of Use This is a

Gelongma Palmo’s Sevenfold Prayer

Gelongma Palmo’s Sevenfold Prayer

༄༅།  །དགེ་སློང་མ་དཔལ་མོས་མཛད་པའི་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་ནི།  ། Gelongma Palmo’s Sevenfold Prayer This seven-branch offering, which is found in many Tārā sādhanas, is attributed to the famous nun Lakṣmī (Gelongma Palmo), founder of the Nyungné tradition. Terms of Use This is a free publication and work

Prayer to Jetsun Tara

Prayer to Jetsun Tara

༄༅།  །རྗེ་བཙུན་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ།  ། Prayer to Jetsün Tārā Written by Jetsün Dragpa Gyaltsen, many of the verses are included in the Sakya-pa version of the Four- Maṇḍala Rite of Ārya Tārā. Terms of Use This is a free publication and work may

Homage to Tara with Twenty-one Salutations

Homage to Tara with Twenty-one Salutations

༄༅།  །སྒྲོལ་བསྟོད་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉེར་གཅིག་བཞུགས།  ། Homage to Tārā with Twenty-one Salutations Found in all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, it is a traditional and popular prayer to the Bodhisattva Tārā (Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ, Drolma, also known as Ārya Tārā, or Jetsun Dolma). The Praises

Completely Pure Realm

Completely Pure Realm

༄༅།   །ཞིང་ཁམས་རྣམ་དག་མ།   ། Completely Pure Realm A short maṇḍala offering composed by Sakya Pandita. Terms of Use This is a free publication and work may be copied or printed for fair use, but only with full attribution, and not for commercial

Offering of the Universe

Offering of the Universe

༄༅།   །གང་གི་མཆོད་རྫས་མ།   ། Offering of the Universe A common prayer often recited after the initial mandala offering to the guru. The prayer Offering of the Universe is recited by disciples to the Lama while visualizing offering everything contained within the