The Hundred and Eight Names of Tara

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The Hundred and Eight Names of Tara (Skt. tārābhaṭṭārikānāmāṣṭaśatakam; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་, Wyl. sgrol ma'i mtshan brgya rtsa brgyad pa) or The Hundred and Eight Names of Venerable Arya Tara (Tib. རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་, Wyl. rje btsun ma 'phags ma sgrol ma'i mtshan brgya rtsa brgyad pa zhes bya ba) — a tantra of Tara requested by Vajrapani and taught by Avalokiteshvara.

Tibetan Text

It is found in Tibetan translation in the tantra section of the Kangyur and is classified as a Kriya Tantra, Toh 727-728.

Translations

  • The Hundred and Eight Names of Venerable Ārya Tārā, translated by Martin Willson, in In Praise of Tara: Songs to the Saviouress (Wisdom Publications, 1986), pages 94-104
  • The 108 Names of the Venerable Arya Tara Corey Jackson, FPMT Education Services, 2010