Noble Lady, Tara Tashi Donjed, Accomplishing
Auspiciousness, Who Brings Timely Seasons, Posterity, Glory and Harmony to the
land.
Tara Tashi Donje
means “Tara who actualizes auspiciousness”. Tashi means “auspicious
circumstances” and Donje means “fulfilling” or “actualizing”. In particular,
this Tara is renowned for bringing harmony and balance. Internally she brings
health and physical balance and externally she brings timely seasons, good
harvests, healthy children, and prosperity. With her help all becomes, as it should be.
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་ཟླ་བའི་དུམ་བུའི་དབུ་རྒྱན། །
chaktsal
dawé dumbü ugyen
Homage to you, so brightly adorned,
བརྒྱན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཤིན་ཏུ་འབར་མ། །
gyenpa tamché shintu bar ma
With a sliver of moon as your crown,
རལ་པའི་ཁྲོད་ན་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ལས། །
ralpé trö na öpakmé lé
Your locks always graced by Amitābha,
རྟག་པར་ཤིན་ཏུ་འོད་རབ་མཛད་མ། །
takpar shintu ö rab dzé ma
Whose gleaming rays stream forever forth.
The twelfth homage
is to Tara, Tashi Dongyed Dolma, the “One Who Bestows Auspiciousness” who
brings timely rain, helps with childbirth, and makes places auspicious.
This golden Tara
sits on blue lotus and holds an auspicious knot. From the rays of her crescent
moon diadem, showers of nectar fall, improving crops and vegetation.
Clear and brilliant
white light radiates from all of her precious jewels and silken attire.
Amitabha, the lord of her Buddha family sits on her black hair knot. From him
too, boundless unceasing compassionate rays shine for the benefit of sentient
beings.
These rays bring a
shower of auspicious signs and articles.
They cleanse the
poisonous bad omens of animate and inanimate existence, causing all beings and
their environments to enjoy perfect, glorious, auspiciousness.
The ultimate
meaning of the first line is ‘direct perception,’ the second line means the
‘enhancing experience’ and the last two of the lines mean ‘the completion stage
of the expansion of primordial wisdom and kayas of the fourth empowerment
(Word).
On the throne of
lotus and moon appears Noble Lady Tara Tashi Doonjed, golden in color, with one
face and two arms. She sits in the dismounting posture.
Her right hand is
in the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand, in the mudra of the Three
Jewels, holds the stem of an utpala flower, which blooms at her ear.
On its pistil is an
auspicious glorious knot shining with light. Light radiates from Noble Lady,
the infinite knot, crescent moon and Amitabha, showering the rain of auspicious
symbols.
Meditate that it
removes the poison of the inauspicious circumstances of the animate and
inanimate, thus establishing the entire world and beings in perfect balance,
and recite the mantra.
