Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. Each of the Twenty-one Taras is a manifestation of the principal Tara, Green Tara. Tara is also known as the ‘Mother of the Conquerors’.

Tara is our common mother, our Holy Mother. When we are young we turn to our worldly mother for help. She protects us from immediate dangers, provides us with all our temporal needs, and guides and encourages us in our learning and personal development.

In the same way, during our spiritual growth we need to turn to our Holy Mother, Tara, for refuge. She protects us from all internal and external dangers, she provides us with all the necessary conditions for our spiritual training, and she guides us and inspires us with her blessings as we progress along the spiritual path.

Join us in this special method of Tara chanting to wrap the entire world in requests to Living Buddha Tara. We will gather together at the end of this year to ask her to please take away the obstacles in this world and help everyone find the happy, meaningful life they long for. Whether you engage in all six sessions or just one, please join in. This will be so powerful in bringing about immediate practical benefit!

“In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful.”
– Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Prayers: Liberation from Sorrow (ebook available here).