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 the remover of disease, but “visharata” refers specifically to the story of Buddha entering Vaishali, as told in the Sutra of Buddha Entering the City of Vaishali. In this Sutra, Buddha gave the Dharani of Vaishali to pacify a terrible epidemic. Visharata became a metaphorical “shortform” of this Dharani in mantras. That Dharani, by the way, begins: “Visharata, visharata, visharata.” As always, with Tara, there is external and internal functioning. Epidemics, internally, refers to our unbreakable habits and attachments that “plague us.”

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Symbols: Medicine Jar (sometimes appearing with medicinal plants)

Colour: Saffron Red in Atisha lineage, Yellow-Orange Saffron in some Nyingma lineages

Other symbols: Tara Dressed in leaves.

All 21 of the mantras begin with Om Tare Tuttare Ture and end with Svaha, so the entire Tara mantra is contained within each of the longer 21 mantras. Even without the supplemental activity supplication, Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha is already both her Praise mantra and also a supplication to save from the 8 fears and dangers.  All Tara mantras have this supplication included:

Om is homage to the Body Speech and Mind of Tara.

Tare, liberates and saves us from suffering in Samsara

Tuttare liberates us from the 8 dangers of lions, elephants, fires, snakes, robbers, prisons, floods and demons, which also mirror the poisons of pride, delusion, hatred, jealousy, wrong views, greed, desire, attachment, doubt. Thus, Tuttare liberates us from every outer and inner danger.

Ture, liberates us from disease.

Svaha, is the root of the path, and means “be it so” or “well said.”

To this, each of the 21 Taras Mantras adds an extra specific layer of intention-setting and supplication.

She also emanates as Parnashavari, Tara Dressed in Leaves.

MUSIC AVAILABLE ON YOUR FAVORITE STREAMING SERVICE ON THE ALBUM “RED TARA POWER MANTRAS” by Buddha Weekly (artist)  as track 8 “Red Tara Remover of Disease” on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram/Facebook, TikTok & other ByteDance stores, YouTube Music, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio, Claro Música, Saavn, Boomplay, Anghami, NetEase, Tencent, Qobuz, Joox, Kuack Media, Adaptr, Flo, MediaNet

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/red-tara-power-mantras/1746470042

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1x5oXpod4eU85k5DLqY0n4

Atisha Lineage as taught by Lama Zopa:

Tara 20. She Who Removes Pestilence

Sanskrit DharaniNamah chandrarka sampurnanayana dyuti bhas varehara dvir ukta Tuttarevishama jvara nashani 

Praise in English

Homage! She whose two eyes bright withRadiance of sun and full moon!With twice HARA and TUTTARAShe dispels severe contagion!

Color: RedVase: RedNectar: Eliminates all epidemics and contagious diseaseActivity: Magnetizing and drawing good health, immune response and healingSpecialty: Epidemics.

Visualization: On the twentieth petal is Tara Who Removes Pestilence (Rimne Selwé Drölma), red in color. She holds a red flask containing nectar whose function is to eliminate all epidemics and contagious diseases.

Mantra:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE VISARATA SVAHA

Lama Zopa: “If there is a contagious disease or epidemic in the country, this is the specific Tara to be practiced.”

Lama Tsultrim Teachings (Tara Mandala)

A Different lineage mantra but the same Tara Dressed in Leaves

Noble Lady of Mountain Retreat, Clothed in Leaves, Who Removes Contagious Diseases

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE NAMA TARE MANO HARA HUNG HARA SVAHA

RITRÖ LOMA GYÖNMA is peaceful and yellow red like saffron. Devotedly reciting her mantra dispels all deadly epidemics. Upon her utpala flower is a round vessel filled with nectar. Her eyes are like the sun and the full moon. From the sun of her right eye shines radiant light, destroying all disease-bearing beings. From the moon of her left eye, a rich stream of nectar descends healing all forms of disease, including their causes and consequences.

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