Noble Lady Tara Norter Drolma,
Bestowing Wealth and Removing Poverty.
This eleventh
Tara’s name Phagmo means “noble one” or “supreme one”. Roughly translated,
Norter means “bestowing riches”, so Phagma Norter Drolma is the Noble Tara who
bestows wealth, renowned as Tara the wealth giver, who removes the sufferings
of poverty.
ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
om jetsünma pakma drolma
la chaktsal lo
Homage to the noble lady
Tārā!
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ས་གཞི་སྐྱོང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྣམས། །
chaktsal sa shyi kyongwé
tsok nam
Homage to you, who can
summon
ཐམས་ཅད་འགུགས་པར་ནུས་པ་ཉིད་མ། །
tamché gukpar nüpa nyi ma
All the legions of earthly
guardians.
ཁྲོ་གཉེར་གཡོ་བའི་ཡི་གེ་ཧཱུྂ་གིས། །
tronyer yowé yigé hung gi
Your frown it quivers, and
the syllable hūṃ
ཕོངས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སྒྲོལ་མ། །
pongpa tamché nampar
drolma
Delivers us all from every
misfortune.
She summons the goddess of
earth, the nagas, the god of wealth, yakshas and other lords of ten directions
and their retinues to serve her activities.
She holds a
treasure vase, and is orange in color. She is majestic, with a scowling face
and a furrowed brow.
Light radiates from
the HUNG syllable at her heart, drawing in the wealth and prosperity of gods, nagas
and humans.
She showers the
poor and needy with wealth, satisfying all their needs and freeing them from
their sufferings.
The inner meaning
is that by purifying the earth-like ignorance that supports the world, the
primordially perfect great merit is revealed, clearing samsara and nirvana of
all poverty. This also indicates the Secret and Wisdom path.
She is golden-red
in color, half-peaceful, half-wrath- ful, passionate and dignified. She sits in
the dismounting pos- ture. She has one face and two arms. Her right hand is in
the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand, in the mudra of the Three Jewels,
holds an utpala flower blooming at her ear.
On its pistil is a
treasure vase that grants all wishes. The light of the mantra HUM radiates from
her three places of body, speech and mind, showering down all the wealth and
glory of gods, nagas and humans.
Imagine that it
fills every house, all the land and the world, and recite the mantra.
