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Supporting Members Video: Patrons Video: Parnashavari Tara Mantra 1 Hour Sanskrit: Eliminates Disease, Epidemics and Obstacles

Healing Parnashavari is Tara's Healing emanation, also lovingly known as Tara Dressed in Leaves. Her mantra is renowned through the centuries, for healing and especially for effectiveness against epidemics. Sing-along MANTRA (Sanskrit): Om Pishachi Parnashavari Sarvajora Prashamanayeh Svaha Video:   https://vimeo.com/916347024?share=copy   or Tibetan version (very similar) OM PI-SA-CHI   PAR-NA-SHA-VA-RI   SAR-VA ZO-LA...
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Supporting Members Video: Achala Fudu Myoo Sanskrit Mantra 1 Hour; Compassionate Help from the Wrathful Destroyer of Evil

Fudo Myoo Achala’s is exactly the type of Dharma Warrior we need in times of world strife, war, disease, and turmoil. His mantra, famously called the Mantra of Compassionate Help in the Vairochana Sutra, is renowned for stopping enemies, removing our obstacles including poverty, sickness or mental defilements, and supressing evil intentions,...
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Video: Marici Tara Mantra for Protection, Success and Prosperity Om Marici Mam Svaha

Marici (Marichi) is called the Great Enemy of Demons or Maras. She is the Enlightened Goddess of the Dawn. Her Golden Rays of Light Destroy any evil, curses, malignancy, evil intentions or curses. Her warm light is also the power to enrich your lifeforce, your auspiciousness, and prosperity. She is an enriching...
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Historical Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha life; what do archaeologists, scholars and scientists agree are the validated, authentic events?

There can be no question that Buddha was a living, historical person, born in the sixth century B.C. in what is now Nepal — whose profound teachings influenced the thinking of philosophers for the last 2600 years. Buddha's life and teachings are not a matter of faith. His practical, method-based teachings changed...
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Supporting Members Video: Marici Tara Mantra for Protection, Success and Prosperity Om Marici Mam Svaha

Marici (Marichi) is called the Great Enemy of Demons or Maras. She is the Enlightened Goddess of the Dawn. Her Golden Rays of Light Destroy any evil, curses, malignancy, evil intentions or curses. Her warm light is also the power to enrich your lifeforce, your auspiciousness, and prosperity. She is an enriching...
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Guru Rinpoche’s advice for visualizing the deity: a how-to from Padmasambhava with advice from today’s teachers (with video how-to)

Guru Rinpoche, the second Buddha.
Guru Rinpoche's advice for visualizing the deity: a how-to from Padmasambhava with advice from today's teachers (with video how-to) 1
  For many Vajrayana Buddhists, nothing is more difficult than generating (creating) a detailed, stable and complete visualization. Yet, at the same time, it is vital, as explained by Kunkhyen Tenpe Nyima: This is one of the primary functions of the development stage;...
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Video: Ekajati Blue Tara Mantra 1 Hour Supremely Powerful Protection and Wish-Granting

Ekajati is one of Mother Tara's most supremely wrathful forms. She is famous for her fierce protection from dangers, obstacles, and demons, her wish-granting powers, and her role as a Wisdom Mother. She is also, in her Blue Form, a supreme healer. She is associated with Blue Tara or Black Tara, and...
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“What Bodhisattvas Do” 37 Practices of All Bodhisattvas: the Total Path, a Daily Recitation, a Perfect Buddhist Practice and Lifestyle

  What are The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas and why are they so revered in Mahayana? "One of the most famous native Tibetan texts on mind training, this classic by Tokme Zangpo summarises the teachings of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and other sources, in order to present the path of the bodhisattva...
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Jetsun Milarepa: Anniversary of the Glorious Singing Sage of Tibet and “A SONG OF HAPPINESS”

  Friday, February 23, 2024 Milarepa (Mi la ras pa in Wylie [Wylie is a method of turning Tibetan script into Roman characters]) was an incredibly wise Tibetan yogi, master, and poet who reached enlightenment in his lifetime. Widely considered to be the founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism. His...
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Remembering Acchariya Abbhuta Sutta: “Wonderful And Marvelous” Qualities of the Buddha on Buddha’s Day of Miracles

Buddha's wonderful birth. 
Remembering Acchariya Abbhuta Sutta: "Wonderful And Marvelous" Qualities of the Buddha on Buddha's Day of Miracles 2
  Saturday February 24, 2024 we celebrate Buddha's Day of Miracles. Although it celebrates the 15 Days of Miracles Buddha performed on one occassion, his entire life was a marvelous spectrum of miracles. One early Sutta described the Wonderful and Marvelous Qualities of the Buddha,...
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Supporting Members Video: Ekajati Blue Tara Mantra 1 Hour Supremely Powerful Protection and Wish-Granting

Ekajati is one of Mother Tara's most supremely wrathful forms. She is famous for her fierce protection from dangers, obstacles, and demons, her wish-granting powers, and her role as a Wisdom Mother.  She is also, in her Blue Form, a supreme healer. She is associated with Blue Tara or Black Tara, and...
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Buddhist Wisdom on Aging: Aging is a Process of Awakening and Wisdom

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Gautama Bodhisattva (before he become the Awakened One) ventured out of the palace and encountered old age (and the other "sights") for the first time. These motivated him to leave his princely life and seek the solution to aging, sickness and the other sufferings. His answer was found,...
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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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