Homage to the sublime Tara.
I pay homage to the treasure of the sublime Lord Avalokiteshvara’s compassion.
From the supreme residence of Potala,
You are born from the green syllable TAM
The rays of the syllable TAM liberate beings.
Tara, along with your retinue, please come forth.
Om ! I prostrate to the sublime noble Tara.
Homage to Tara, you who are swift and heroic
And whose eyes are like a lightning flash.
You are born from the pollen heart of the blooming
Lotus face of the protector of the three worlds.
Homage to Tara, you whose face is like
A hundred full autumn moons gathered together
And whose radiance is extremely bright,
Like the blazing of a thousand constellations.
Homage to Tara, you whose hands are beautifully adorned
With a golden-blue water-born lotus
And who only puts generosity, diligence, austerity,
Tranquillity, patience and concentration into practice.
Homage to Tara, you who enjoy infinite victory
Which came from the crown of Tathagata.
You are completely relied upon
By the bodhisattvas who have attained all the paramitas without exception.
Homage to Tara, you who fill the desire realm, all the directions and space
With the syllables TUTTARA and HUNG,
Whose feet trample the seven worlds
And has the power to summon all without exception.
Homage to Tara, you who are worshipped by Indra, Agni Dev, Brahma,
Vayu Dev and the other powerful gods.
All the spirits, zombies, scent-eaters (gandharvas)
And the host of harm bringers (yakshas) offer praise before you.
Homage to Tara, you who through the sounds of the mantra TRAT and PHAT
Destroy the magical wheels of enemies.
You trample them with your right leg drawn in and your left leg stretched out,
Blazing extremely with a raging fire.
Homage to Tara, you who with the great fearful mantra TURE
Completely conquer the demon warriors.
Your lotus face possesses a wrathful grimace
Which slays all enemies without exception.
Homage to Tara, you whose heart is perfectly adorned
With the finger mudra symbolizing the Three Jewels.
You dazzle with your mass of radiance
Which adorns the wheel of directions without exception.
Homage to Tara, you who diffuse a garland of radiance
From your completely joyous and majestic crown.
With your laughter, the perfect laughter of TUTTARA,
You conquer demons and the world.
Homage to Tara, you who are the only one who has the power to summon
The whole assembly of earth protectors.
With your wrathful grimace and moving syllable of HUNG
You perfectly liberate all the destitute.
Homage to Tara, you who are tremendously blazing with a crown adorned by the crescent moon
And all your ornaments.
You always radiate tremendous light
From Amitabha who is at the midst of your hair knot.
Homage to Tara, you who dwell in the midst of a blazing fire garland
Like the fire of the last aeon.
With your right leg stretched out and left drawn in, you rejoice being totally surrounded
And you completely destroy the host of enemies.
Homage to Tara, you who press with the palm of your hands
And trample with your feet on the surface of the earth.
And with your wrathful grimace
You subdue the seven levels with the syllable HUNG.
Homage to Tara, you who are joyous, virtuous and peaceful,
You who only experience nirvana.
Perfectly endowed with the syllables SVAHA and OM
You abolish immense negative actions.
Homage to Tara, you who are entirely surrounded by the extremely joyous ones.
You utterly destroy the bodies of enemies.
From the speech of ten syllables and the mantra HUNG
You are the only one who is manifested.
Homage to Tara, you who are the only form of the seed syllable HUNG.
You, the swift one, by stamping your feet
Cause Mt. Meru, Mt. Mandara, Mt. Vindhya
And the three worlds to tremble.
Homage to Tara, you who hold a hare-marked full moon in your hand
Which appears like an ocean of gods.
You recite TARA twice and by the syllable PHAT
Dispel all the three poisons without exception.
Homage to Tara, you who are relied by the assembly of gods,
Kings and kinnaras.
With the complete armour of joyous splendour,
You eliminate disputes and bad dreams.
Homage to Tara, you whose two eyes, the radiating sun and moon,
Possess an excellent luminous light.
By uttering HARA twice and TUTTARA
You dispel all violent epidemics.
Homage to Tara, you who are perfectly endowed with the power of peace
Placed in the three suchnesses.
You are the one who destroys the host of demons, zombies and yakshas
With the excellent syllable TURE.
This is the praise of the root mantra and
The twenty-one homages.
By Padma Mani Translation Committee (NNNI)
