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'''Praises to the Twenty-One Taras''' — these well-known verses of praise have one verse for each of [[Twenty-One Taras|twenty-one forms of Tara]] and arose from the [[tantra]] known as “Offering Praise to Tara through Twenty-One [verses] of Homage” (Skt. ''Namastāraikaviṃśatistotra'', Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་, Wyl. ''sgrol ma la phyag 'tshal ba nyi shu gcig gis bstod pa'') which can be found in the [[Derge Kangyur]], Volume 81 - pp.435-437. | '''Praises to the Twenty-One Taras''' — these well-known verses of praise have one verse for each of [[Twenty-One Taras|twenty-one forms of Tara]] and arose from the [[tantra]] known as “Offering Praise to Tara through Twenty-One [verses] of Homage” (Skt. ''Namastāraikaviṃśatistotra'', Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''sgrol ma la phyag 'tshal ba nyi shu gcig gis bstod pa'') which can be found in the [[Derge Kangyur]], Volume 81 - pp.435-437. | ||
Each of the twenty-one forms of [[Tara]] is dedicated to a specific activity and there are also different levels of meaning for each verse of homage. In addition, there are several traditions of iconography for these forms of Tara – the five main ones being the traditions of Suryagupta, [[Atisha]], Sadhana-samucchaya, [[Longchen Nyingtik]] ([[Jikmé Lingpa]]) and [[Chokgyur Lingpa]]. The first three are from the Indian tradition and the last two are from the Tibetan [[terma]] tradition. | Each of the twenty-one forms of [[Tara]] is dedicated to a specific activity and there are also different levels of meaning for each verse of homage. In addition, there are several traditions of iconography for these forms of Tara – the five main ones being the traditions of Suryagupta, [[Atisha]], Sadhana-samucchaya, [[Longchen Nyingtik]] ([[Jikmé Lingpa]]) and [[Chokgyur Lingpa]]. The first three are from the Indian tradition and the last two are from the Tibetan [[terma]] tradition. | ||
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Praises to the Twenty-One Taras — these well-known verses of praise have one verse for each of twenty-one forms of Tara and arose from the tantra known as “Offering Praise to Tara through Twenty-One [verses] of Homage” (Skt. Namastāraikaviṃśatistotra, Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ཉི་ཤུ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་, Wyl. sgrol ma la phyag 'tshal ba nyi shu gcig gis bstod pa) which can be found in the Derge Kangyur, Volume 81 - pp.435-437.
Each of the twenty-one forms of Tara is dedicated to a specific activity and there are also different levels of meaning for each verse of homage. In addition, there are several traditions of iconography for these forms of Tara – the five main ones being the traditions of Suryagupta, Atisha, Sadhana-samucchaya, Longchen Nyingtik (Jikmé Lingpa) and Chokgyur Lingpa. The first three are from the Indian tradition and the last two are from the Tibetan terma tradition.
Further Reading
- The Smile of the Sun and Moon by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. Published by Sky Dancer Press. ISBN 1-880975-07-6
- Skillful Grace: Tara Practice for Our Time by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Trulshik Adeu Rinpoche. Published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. ISBN 962-7341-61-1
- Tara’s Enlightened Activity by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Published by Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-287-8