How does this fit with the Tibetan practices of recitation of mantras, devotion to Tara and other deities etc? For example, at the end of the Praise to the Twenty One Taras is a list of benefits which includes the following:
Does this have to do with the fact that merit can be transferred from one person to another? By reciting the Twenty One Praises, is Tara giving us some of her merit?One who has perfect devotion to the Goddess,
A wise person who clearly recites this,
Who remembers her at dusk and at dawn upon rising
To that one will be granted absolute fearlessness.
All evil actions shall be completely purified,
All evil states completely destroyed.
Seventy million Buddhas
Shall swiftly empower one