Dharma practice: Prayers for peace
An Essential Summary of the Twenty-One Praises to Tara
Om jetsunma pama drölma la chak tselo
Om Holy Tara, noble one, to you I bow down.
Chaktsel drölma tare pamo
I bow to you O saviour, Tara, brave one.
Tuttarayi jigkun selma
With “Tuttara” you banish all fears,
Ture donnam thamche terma
With “Ture” richly giving all things.
Soha yiger chela rabdu
I worship you by crying “Soha”!
Once when the incomparable Lord Atisha was staying at Nyetang, he fell ill. When he prayed to the Venerable Tara, she gave him a prophetic instruction saying that he should recite, in the course of a single day, the twenty-one praises to Tara ten thousand times. Lord Atisha replied that in one day he would never manage such a task, and he asked her to grant him a skilful method. In response to his request, this extremely condensed form of the twenty-one praises was taught to him by Tara herself, on account of which, it possesses a very great power of blessing.
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