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1. Tara (known Dolma in Tibet, in Japanese Buddhism –
Tara Bosatsu) is a female Bodhisattva. She is also
known as the “Mother of all Buddhas“.
Tara, the female Buddha aspect of the Universe, is
an emanation of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of
Compassion. Once, when Chenrezig was very moved
by the suffering of all sentient being, he shed two
tears.
The tear from his right eye turned into the green
form of Bodhisattva Tara and the tear from his left
eye turned into the white form of Bodhisattva Tara.

2. Tara has 21 forms (or aspects) and Green Tara is one of the
two main forms (alongside with White Tara).
All of Tara’s manifestations share one main characteristic –
compassion. Green Tara (or Buddha of enlightened activity)
in Tibetan Buddhism is always ready to come to our rescue.

3. Green Tara representation in images is with one leg on
the ground and her left hand, in the gesture of granting
refuge holds the stem of a blue lotus that floats over
her left shoulder as a symbol of purity and power. With
her right hand she makes the boon-granting gesture.

4. Dalai Lama’s quote about Green Tara:
“On a lotus seat, standing for realization of voidness, the
emerald-colored, one-faced, two-armed Lady. In youth’s full
bloom, right leg out, left drawn in, showing the union of wisdom
and art – homage to you! Like the outstretched branch of the
heavenly turquoise tree, your supple right hand makes the boon –
granting gesture, inviting the wise to a feast of supreme
accomplishments, as if to an entertainment-homage to you! Your
left hand gives us refuge, showing the Three Jewels; it says, “You
people who see a hundred dangers, Don’t be frightened-I shall
swiftly save you!” Homage to you! Both hands signal with blue
utpala flowers, “Samsaric beings! Cling not to worldly pleasures.
Enter the great city of liberation!” Flower-goads prodding us to
effort-homage to you!”

5. Green Tara Mantra lyrics in Sanskrit:
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA
Green Tara Mantra lyrics in Tibetan:
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA

6. Chanting Green Tara Mantra benefits:
Raises your level of consciousness, open
your heart chakra, also eliminates fear,
disease and anxiety, brings peace of
mind and prosperity, but the main
attribute of this mantra is the help we
get to overcome unpleasant situations.
According to Tibetan lamas, if we chant
Green Tara Mantra with positive and
pure intentions it can help us fulfill our
wishes.

7. Green Tara Mantra meaning, explained in a teaching held by
Lama Zopa Rinpoche:
„In short Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha means: I prostrate to the
Liberator, Mother of all the Victorious One. To explain the meaning
of TARE TUTTARE TURE: Tare means liberating from samsara.
TARE, shows that Mother Tara liberates living beings from
samsara, from true suffering, or problems. You can relate this to
the particular sufferings of human beings: birth, old age, sickness
and death; meeting undesirable objects and experiencing aversion;
not finding desirable objects or finding them but gaining no
satisfaction. No matter how much pleasure you enjoy, there is no
satisfaction. No matter how much you follow desire, there is no
satisfaction at all.

8. TUTTARE, liberates you from the eight fears. There are
eight fears related to external dangers from fire, water, air,
earth, and also from such things as thieves and
dangerous animals. However, the main dangers come
from ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, jealousy,
miserliness, doubt and wrong views. These eight
disturbing thoughts that you have in your mind are the
main dangers.
TURE, liberates you from disease. Now, of the Four
Noble Truths, TURE shows the cessation of suffering,
which is the ultimate Dharma. In terms of liberating from
disease, the actual disease we have is ignorance not
knowing the absolute nature of the I, and all the disturbing
thoughts that arise from this ignorance.
The rough meaning of these three words TARE
TUTTARE TURE is: “To you, embodiment of all the
Buddhas actions, I prostrate always—whether I am in
happy or unhappy circumstances—with my body, speech
and mind.”

9. SOHA means establishing the root of the path within
your heart. In other words, by taking refuge in Tara and
doing Tara practice, you receive the blessings of Tara
in your own heart.
The conclusion is that by taking refuge in Tara, doing
Tara practices such as recitation of the Tara mantra,
and practicing the path contained in that mantra, you
can achieve the fully enlightened state with the four
kayas, which is the cessation, liberated from the two
obscurations.
In short, OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA means “I
prostrate to the Liberator, Mother of all the
Victorious Ones.” Tara is the mother of all the
Victorious Ones, or Buddhas. Why are Buddhas called
Victorious Ones? Because they are victorious over the
two obscurations.”

10. Green Tara Mantra practice:
Sadhanas (spiritual practice) in which Tara is the
yidam (meditational deity) can be extensive or quite
brief. Most all of them include some introductory
praises or homages to invoke her presence and
prayers of taking refuge. Then her mantra is recited,
followed by a visualization of her, perhaps more
mantra, then the visualization is dissolved, followed by
a dedication of the merit from doing the practice.
As Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, in his Introduction to the
Red Tara Sadhana, notes of his lineage:
“Tara is the flawless expression of the
inseparability of emptiness, awareness and
compassion. Just as you use a mirror to see your
face, Tara meditation is a means of seeing the true
face of your mind, devoid of any trace of delusion“.

11. The benefits of Green Tara Mantra practice, from two
teachings given at Kopan Monastery and Himalayan
Yogic Institute, Nepal in May 1987:
“Tara is quick to grant success in obtaining the ultimate
happiness of enlightenment. You receive much good
merit, or cause of happiness; it prevents a suffering
rebirth in your next life; you receive initiation from
millions of Buddhas; and you achieve enlightenment.
Besides these, however, Tara practice has many other
benefits. Reciting the Twenty-one Tara’s’ prayer with
devotion, at dawn or dusk—or remembering Tara, singing
praises and reciting mantras at any time of the day or
night—protects you from fear and dangers, and fulfill all
your wishes. If you pray to Tara, Tara is particularly quick
to grant help.

12. If you recite the Twenty-one Tara’s
prayer once every evening, it is
impossible – I can put my signature to
this! – for you to die of starvation. It is
also a very common experience for lay
practitioners, monks and nuns with
financial difficulties to have such
problems relieved by doing Tara
practice. In my personal experience, I
have seen many instances of people who
have prayed to and taken refuge in Tara
and been saved from the danger of
untimely death from disease without
taking medicine.”

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