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Video: 3 Supremes: Vajrasattva, Tara, Ushnisha Vijaya: Purification, Removing Suffering, Enlightenment

Three Supremes Video: About Tara, Vajrasattva and Ushnisha Vijaya.
Video: 3 Supremes: Vajrasattva, Tara, Ushnisha Vijaya: Purification, Removing Suffering, Enlightenment 1
Why are Vajrasattva, Tara and Ushnisha Vijaya described as the Three Supremes or the Three Special Deities? What is their triad of practice? Why are Purification, overcoming Fears and Removing Suffering considered the supreme practices in Mahayana? We answer...
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21 Mother Taras Mantras

The Unlimited Forms of Compassionate Activity Noble Arya Tara — who has more names, emanations, and epitaphs than any Bodhisattva — embodies all of the compassionate and wisdom activities of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. How better to represent all of these diverse activities than in a multiplicity of forms? There are...
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Supporting Member Video: 3 Supremes: Vajrasattva, Tara, Ushnisha Vijaya: Purification, Removing Suffering, Enlightenment

Three Supremes Video: About Tara, Vajrasattva and Ushnisha Vijaya.
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Why are Vajrasattva, Tara and Ushnisha Vijaya described as the Three Supremes or the Three Special Deities? What is their triad of practice? Why are Purification, overcoming Fears and Removing Suffering considered the supreme practices in Mahayana? We answer...
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Why are Vajrasattva, Tara and Ushnisha Vijaya described as the Three Supremes? Triad of Practice: Purifying Ignorance; Overcoming Samsaric Dangers; Triumph Over Death

Why are Vajrasattva, Tara and Ushnisha Vijaya described as the Three Supremes or the Three Special Deities? In all lineages of Buddhism, the triad of practice represents: purifying Ignorance to attain wisdom; overcoming our fears and poisons to remove suffering; and ultimately, to triumph over death, through Enlightenment. As Dharmakaya Supreme Buddha,...
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4 Practices on Lunar Days: 5 Buddha’s Vow and Practicing Activity, Merit, Reflection, Renewal

Why are lunar days, such as the new moon and full moon, special in Buddhism? What are the four special practice days based on lunar phases that have extra merit for Dharma practice? Why is the New Moon on the last day of the lunar month, special for Purification practices and what...
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PDF Dharma Practice Download: Confession and 5 Buddha Vows

Renewal of Your Bodhisattva and Commitment Vows Buddhist Practice includes Refuge in the Three Jewels or Three Roots. One way to ensure progress in your Buddhist practice, regardless of your Yidam or practices is to include the Four Rs of Refuge, Regret, Remedy and Refrain. Most practices already include Refuge in the...
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14 Invincible Black Tara: Mantra Destroys 9 Types of Evil and 8 Types of Harm-Doers

Invincible Black Tara, 14th of the 21 Taras.
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The Fourteenth Tara is also called “Black Tara Who is Frowning Wrathfully”  With her great pestle and mortar, she destroys, crushes, and transforms all harm-doers: any evil Maras, Yamas, Mamos, Rakshasa, Yakshas Kinnaras, Bimipatis, and Tsan. She also protects us...
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Video: 20th Saffron Red Tara Mantra 108 Times Sanskrit Mantra Dispels Epidemics and Disease

20th Saffron Red Tara Dispels Epidemics and Diseases
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The 20th Tara is Saffron Red Tara (Orange-Red) -- Red Tara, Remover of Disease --  who helps magnetize the conditions necessary to eliminate epidemics and widespread pestilence. Her supplication mantra is:  Om tare tuttare ture visharata svaha Tara is always...
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Supporting Members Video: 7th Wrathful Black Tara Mantra Crushes Enemies, Black Magic, War, Natural Disasters, Evil

 
On Youtube to general public, the video releases on Tuesday Oct 22.
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Black Tara's powerful mantra is the ultimate of protections, 7th Black Tara (of 21 Taras) chanted 108 times in Sanskrit with beautiful new images and animations: oṃ tāre tuttāre ture sarva vidyā avarṇā ye bhye...
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Ultimate Purity as a Practice: Vajrasattva – the only practice most people need and the most powerful healing and purification method in Vajrayana Buddhism

Vajrasattva, a detail from art by Jampay Dorje (Ben Christian.) Visit Jampay Dorje's website>>
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In Buddhism, all practice can be considered purification. Whether we are practicing the Eightfold Path taught by Shakyamuni Buddha, or the five transformations of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, or a Yidam meditation in personal...
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Supporting Members Video: 16 Red Tara Mantra: Tara Who Increases Wisdom and Overcomes Enemies, Evil Magic, Disaster

16th Red Tara Blazing with Light Mantra video.
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Red Blazing Tara is also known as “Red Tara Who Arises from the Hum of Intrinsic Awareness” and like all Red Tara’s her mantra magnetizes the powers we need to overcome obstacles — in this case, according to Lama Tsultrim...
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Ganapuja (Gathering Offering) and Ganachakra (Gathering Circle) or Tsog (Tsok): What is it? Why is the Offering Important? When to Celebrate?

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at a puja.
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What is Ganapuja, Ganachakra or Tsog (Tsok) and why is it so precious and important? From the Heruka Root Tantra regarding Ganachakra: Quickly attempt to make offerings Every waxing and waning of each month do tsog. About Ganapuja from book of Chögyal...
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Buddha Weekly’s Special Section

Tara, Mother of all Buddhas

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Loving face of the Mother of All Buddhas Green Tara. Detail from art by Ben Christian.
Karma Mother

How does Tara Help?

Tara, like any Mother, is ready to jump to our aid, even in mundane areas of life. She is the “practical Buddha” — the “Karma Mother” — the Buddha most active in our lives. Her Sanskrit name translates as “a star by which to navigate” — and like a star, she is always with us whenever we look for her.

Tara 6 Tara Victorious Over Three Worlds Trailokya Vijaya Tara.
Tara on YouTube

21 Taras Mantra Video Playlist

An entire playlist of every one of the mantras for the 21 Taras. Don't miss the amazing Tara mantra chanting of Yoko Dharma for the each Tara of the 21 Taras according to Surya Gupta lineage. One video with many repetitions and visualized images for each Tara. The final video is the English-translated 21 Praises to Tara sung in English.

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