Tara

“Tara’s themes are Universal Unity, peace, cooperation, destiny, energy and spirituality. Her symbol is a star. In Hindu mythology, Tara is a star Goddess who encompasses all time and…

[Note: After a year of doing the Green Tara practice during the pandemic, I have updated this story here.] In January, from his home in Dharamshala, the Dalai Lama told a group of Chinese Buddhists…

With Jason's kind permission, we are excerpting a chapter on Tara — a must read for the many devotees of Mother Tara.

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The Green Tara mantra, Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha, entreats to the compassion and the guidance that Goddess Tara can offer to devotees.

"The Mahasiddha Surya Gupta lineage of the twenty-one Taras is quite different from the Atisha lineage in that each of the twenty-one Taras is very distinctive in appearance and attributes and each Tara has her own sadhana. Although technically the practice of the twenty-one Taras is Kriya Tantra, it feels more advanced, with the sadhanas reading more like sadhanas from a higher level Tantra. Of course, in a sense, our experience of any Tara sadhana practice depends on the state of our mind…