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General TARA Puja book

Postby Tsewang » Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:47 am

Hi

I am looking for a basic Tara puja book that anyone can do without requiring empowerment, thanks.
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Ayu » Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:12 pm

Hello

I don't know a special book, but i think the Praises To The 21 Taras is very powerful and anyone can do it.

May this be helpful.
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/ar ... y=21+taras

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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Jainarayan » Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:53 pm

I'm sorry to be an interloper to this thread, but along the lines of the o.p., are there any restrictions on reciting The King of Prayers?
"Compassion is that which makes the heart of the good move at the pain of others." - The Buddha

"May I be gentle-minded, cultivating the six paramitas, and never forget bodhicitta. May I completely cleanse without omission every negativity and all that obscures this awakening mind." - from Samantabhadracarya Pranidhana
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Konchog1 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:53 pm

Jainarayan wrote:I'm sorry to be an interloper to this thread, but along the lines of the o.p., are there any restrictions on reciting The King of Prayers?
No, it's fine.
"Neu-sur-ba said: You must see any affliction as an enemy and attack it as soon as it arises in your mind. Otherwise, if you acquiesce when it first appears, and then nurture it with improper thoughts, you will have no way to defeat it, and it will conquer you in the end.”

-Lam Rim Chen Mo eng v01 pg. 348 tib pg. 275
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Jainarayan » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:20 pm

Very good, thanks.
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"May I be gentle-minded, cultivating the six paramitas, and never forget bodhicitta. May I completely cleanse without omission every negativity and all that obscures this awakening mind." - from Samantabhadracarya Pranidhana
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Ayu » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:44 pm

There is also one book i know about the background and the practice of the 21 Taras, but it is not available in English.
It's written in German and French also:
http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keyword ... h89icxvf_e
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Vajratantrika » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:23 pm

Tsewang wrote:Hi

I am looking for a basic Tara puja book that anyone can do without requiring empowerment, thanks.



While it is not specifically a puja text, I have found Ven. Thubten Chodron's book, How to Free Your Mind: Tara the Liberator, to be quite helpful in understanding more about Tara.
May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes,
May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes,
May all sentient beings never be separated from bliss without suffering,
May all sentient beings be in equanimity, free of ignorance, attachment and aversion.
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby philji » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:43 pm

In the book " confessions of a gypsy yogini " by Marcia Schmidt there is a lovely Tara practice in English.....
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby gregkavarnos » Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:18 pm

"Meditation is familiarisation with realisation"
Jigten Sumgon Gonchig: The Single Intent, the Sacred Dharma
"Oh great bodhisattva, you ought to understand the quintessence in this way: Whatever appears is one in its suchness. It cannot be falsified by anyone. The sovereign of unconceptualised sameness dwells in the spirit of the Dharmakaya which cannot be cognised."
The All Creating Sovereign, Mind of Perfect Purity.
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Re: General TARA Puja book

Postby Jainarayan » Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:23 pm

gregkavarnos wrote:Here's one from the FPMT.


I love that one. On a printer that will do double-sided printing, it can be printed in booklet format and then stapled in the center, or cut in half and stapled or bound down the left side.
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