Tara Practice

This practice relates to both Green Tara and White Tara and includes beautiful songs and verses composed by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.

The history of Arya Tara is that her first incarnation was that of a royal princess. It was during that birth that she gave rise to the enlightened intention of bodhicitta to benefit all sentient beings. She also made a pledge to do so by attaining Buddhahood in the form and in the body of a woman.

In this way Arya Tara took successive incarnations and while being a female Buddha in essence, she maintained the way of a female bodhisattva and her enlightened activity was unbroken. She continually performed enlightened activity for the benefit of sentient beings and in particular she emanated into twenty-one forms of Tara, and through these emanations dispelled all kinds of fears of sentient beings.

"Not only is supplicating Arya Tara beneficial for clearing away immediate obstacles for individuals who have entered the paths to liberation and omniscience; supplicating Arya Tara helps to clear away all hindrances and obstacles related to achieving the ultimate goals. If you are a person who has entered and is practicing the path, then supplicating Arya Tara helps dispel all obstacles you are facing that get in the way of making your practice fruitional. Arya Tara also clears away obstacles of all those with whom we have connections, our friends, our relatives, our partners and so on, anyone for whom we wish that they be free of illness, negative spirits, and other obstacles. When you supplicate Arya Tara you will receive her blessing."

- The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche