Noble Lady Tara Tronyerchen,
Frowning Lady, Destroying the Evil of Nine Kinds of Harm-doers, Eight Classes
of Spirits, Damsi and Obstructing.
This Tara is known
as Thronyer Chen. Thronyer is “frowning, wrathful”, so she is the very
wrathful, frowning one. She is a special emanation of Tara whose activity is
removing subtle obstacles due to misleading influences, which are usually our
most stubborn obstacles.
She deals with our
last “wrinkles” or, we might say, the last two per cent of our delusions, deep within the elemental
nature of human beings.
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་གཞིའི་ངོས་ལ་ཕྱག་གི །
chaktsal sa shyi ngö la
chak gi
Homage to you, who on the earth’s surface
མཐིལ་གྱིས་བསྣུན་ཅིང་ཞབས་ཀྱིས་བརྡུང་མ། །
til
gyi nün ching shyab kyi dung ma
Strike your palms and stamp your feet;
ཁྲོ་གཉེར་ཅན་མཛད་ཡི་གེ་ཧཱུྂ་གིས། །
tronyer
chen dzé yigé hung gi
Your brow deeply furrowed, with hūṃ you smash
རིམ་པ་བདུན་པོ་རྣམས་ནི་འགེམས་མ། །
rimpa
dünpo nam ni gem ma
The seven netherworlds to nothing but dust.
The fourteenth
homage is to Thronyer Chenzed, who subdues the eight classes of harmful spirits
and nine malignant spirit brothers. She makes the world tremble and quake by
striking the mountains and islands with the palms of her hands and stamping
upon them with her feet.
By the power of her
regal frowning, the resounding vibration of HUNG, and the glare from her
radiant vajra light, which is like a fire-shower, she shatters the hearts and
heads of all malignant spirits: samaya breakers, demons and others from the
seven underworlds and above, and makes them faint into the state of dharmata.
The seven
underworlds, which are like layers of seven roofs, are: the abodes of demons,
the general base, the higher base, the baseless, the specific base, the base of
essence, the perfect base, and the pure base. In reality, the two soles
striking symbolize striking the crucial point of the path of the non-duality of
pristine wisdom and the basic sphere, which uproots the seven latencies or
seven cognitions with their objects.
On the throne of
lotus and moon appears Noble Lady Tara Tronyerchen, black like rainclouds, 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 blooming at her ear.
On its pistil
stands a pestle. With the sound of HUM, she radiates light, showering flaming
vajras. By this light and by her hands and feet hitting the earth, she splits
the heads of powerful evil spirits, damsi, gongpo, and misleading demons. They
fall unconscious in the state of dharmata.
Meditate on this
and recite the ten-syllable mantra.
