Tara has 21 primary emanations, each of which
performs different activities such as pacification, increase and so
forth.
The different colors of these 21 Taras
correspond to the 4 different types of enlightened activity.
"Tara is the female Buddha of enlightened
activity, of which there are 4 types: pacifying, increasing, overpowering and
wrathful. Each of these is represented by a different color:
· White represents the enlightened
activity of pacifying, for example overcoming sickness, causes of untimely
death and obstacles to success in one's life or one's practice.
· Yellow represents the enlightened
activity of increasing the positive qualities conducive to a long life, peace,
happiness and success in one's Dharma practice.
· Red represents the enlightened activity
of power, or overpowering external forces that cannot be tamed through the
first two activities, for example, removing obstacles to sickness, untimely death,
etc., and forcefully accumulating conducive conditions for one's Dharma
practice.
· Black represents the enlightened
activity of wrath, which involves using forceful methods for accomplishing
activities for enlightened purposes that cannot be accomplished through other
means."
Here are the 21 Tara Mantras for evoking different help.
01. The Green Tara (source of the other twenty emanations.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE SVĀHĀ
02. The Tara who Averts Disasters.
ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཏཱ་རེ་སརྦ་བི་གྷཱན་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ VAJRA TĀRE SARVA BIGHĀNAN SHANTIṀ KURU SVĀHĀ
03. The Tara Who Averts Earth–born Calamities.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་ལྃ་ལྃ་བྷཱ་ཡ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE MAMA SARVA LAṀ LAṀ BHĀYA SHĀNTIṀ KURU SVĀHĀ
04. The Tara Who Averts Destruction Caused by Water
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་བྃ་བྃ་ཛ་ལ་བྷཱ་ཡ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE MAMA SARVA BAṀ BAṀ JHALA BHĀYA SHĀNTIṀ KURU
SVĀHĀ
05. The Tara Who Averts Destruction Caused by Fire.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུ་ཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་རྃ་རྃ་ཛྭ་ལ་བྷཱ་ཡ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE MAMA SARVA RAṀ RAṀ JHALA BHĀYA SHĀNTIṀ KURU
SVĀHĀ
06. The Tara Who Averts Destruction Caused by Wind.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་ཡྃ་ཡྃ་ཙ་ལ་བྷཱ་ཡ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OṀ TĀRE TUTTĀRE TURE MAMA SARVA YAṀ YAṀ JHALA BHĀYA SHĀNTIṀ KURU
SVĀHĀ
07. The Increasing Tara.
ཨོཾ་རཏྣཏཱ་རེ་སརྦ་ལོ་ཀ་ཛྙཱ་ན་བིདྱཱ་དྷ་ར་བྷ་ར་དྷི་རི་དྷི་རི་ཧྲཱིཾ་ཧྲཱིཾ་ཛཿཛྙཱ་ན་པཱུཥྚིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་ཨོཾ༔
OṀ RATNA TĀRE SARVA LOKA JÑĀNA VIDYĀ DHARA DHARA DHIRI DHIRI HRĪ
HRĪṀ JAḤ JÑĀNA PŪṢṬIṀ KURU OṀ
08. The Tara Who Averts Danger from Thunderbolts.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་ཨེ་ཨེ་མ་ཧཱ་ཧ་ན་བྷཱ་ཡ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA SARVA EH EH MAHA HANA BHAYA SHANTIM
KURU SOHA
09. The Tara Who Averts Destruction Caused by Weapons.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེཏུ་ཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་ཏིག་ཏིག་ཏཱཀྵྞ་རཀྵ་རཀྵ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA SARVA TIK TIK TIKSHANA RAKSHA RAKSHA
KURU SOHA
10. The Tara Who Averts Imprisonment by Kings.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུ་ཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མ་མ་སརྦ་རཱ་ཛ་དུཥྚཱན་ཀྲོདྷ་ཤཱནྟིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་སྭ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA SARVA RADZA DUKTEN KRODHA SHANTIM KURU
SOHA
11. The Tara Who Averts Evil Caused by Robbers.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེཏུ་་ཏྟཱརེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་ཙཽ་ར་བྷནྡྷ་བྷནྡྷ་ཏྲིག་ཐུཾ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA CHORA BENDA BENDA TRIKTHUM SOHA
12. The Tara Who Increases Power.
ཨོཾ་པདྨ་ཏཱ་རེ་སནྟ་ར་ཧྲཱིཿསརྦ་ལོ་ཀ་ཝཱ་ཤཾ་ཀུ་རུ་ཧོཿ
OM PEMA TARE SENTARA HRI SARVA LOKA WASHAM KURU HO
13. The Tara Who Averts Evil caused by flesh eating Demons.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུ་ཏྟཱརེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་དུཥྚཱ་ནབི་་གྷྣཱན་བྃ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA DUKTEN BIGHANEN BAM PHE SOHA
14. The Tara Who Averts Evil Affecting Elephants
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུ་ཏྟཱརེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་ཧཾ་ཧཾ་དུཥྚཱན་ཧ་ན་ཧ་ན་ཏྲཱ་ས་ཡ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA HAM HAM DUKTEN HANA HANA DRASAYA PHE
SOHA
15. The Tara Who Averts Evil Caused by Lions.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་ཧེ་ཧེ་ཙ་ལེ་ཙ་ལེ་བྷནྡྷ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA HE HE TSALE TSALE BENDA PHE SOHA
16. The Tara Who Averts the Danger of Snakes.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་བིཥ་ཙ་ལ་ཡ་ཧ་ར་ཧཱ་ར་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA BISHA TSALAYA HARA HARA PHE SOHA
17. The Wrathful Tara
ཨོཾ་ཀརྨ་ཏཱ་རེ་སརྦ་ཤཱཏྲཱུན་བི་གྷྣཱན་མཱ་ར་སེན་ཧ་ཧ་ཧེ་ཧེ་ཧོ་ཧོ་ཧཾ་ཧཾ་བྷིནྡྷ་བྷིནྡྷ་ཕཊ༔
OM KARMA TARE SARWA SHATRUM BIGHANEN MARA SENA HA HA HE HE HO HO
HAM HAM BINDA BINDA PHE
18. The Tara Who Heals Sickness.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་ཛྭ་ར་སརྦ་དུཿཁ་པྲ་ཤམ་ནཱ་ཡེ་ཕཊ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA DZARA SARVA DHUKA TRASHA MANAYA PHE
SOHA
19. The Tara who averts untimely Death.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་བཛྲ་ཨཱ་ཡུ་ཥེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE BENDZA AYUKHE SOHA
20. The Tara Who Bestows Prosperity.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་ཛམྡྷེ་མོ་ཧེ་དྷི་ཧྲཱིཿསྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE DZAMBHE MOHE DANA MEDHI SHRI SOHA
21. The Tara Who Averts the Fear of Failure.
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟཱ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་སརྦ་ཨརྠ་སིདྡྷིསི་དྡྷི་ཀུ་རུ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA ARTA SIDDHISIDDHI KURU SOHA
May I pray that the mantra that you recite
with deep faith evoke Tara’s blessing to protect all sentient beings.
Source: From the sgrol ma ‘jigs pa kun sel contained within the
thugs sgrub bar chad kun selgterma cycle, revealed by Terchen Orgyen Chokgyur
Lingpa
