Happy to announce new e-book available for free download: Noble Tara E-book . It is a compilation of all the research and translations done on Noble Tārā (as listed in this section of the website) so far in one .pdf file. With sections on General Tārā, White Tārā, Green Tārā, Red Tārā and new translations… Continue reading New E-Book: Noble Tārā available for free download
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REVERENCE OR IRREVERENT? “Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder”: Priceless and sacred Tibetan Buddhist artworks and statues being sold for financial profit at Bonhams Hong Kong auction to highest bidders on 30th October 2025
Similar to the Christies' Hong Kong auction, another auction, Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder, of priceless Tibetan Buddhist treasures and artworks is being sold off to the highest bidder, for millions of USD/HKD. This time the works come from a specific living individual the art historian and collector, Ulrich… Continue reading REVERENCE OR IRREVERENT? “Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder”: Priceless and sacred Tibetan Buddhist artworks and statues being sold for financial profit at Bonhams Hong Kong auction to highest bidders on 30th October 2025
NEW TRANSLATION: “GARLAND OF UTPALA FLOWERS”. Daily Practice of Five-Deity Tārā (སྒྲོལ་མ་ལྷ་ལྔའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཨུཏྤལ་ཕྲེང་བ་)composed by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Three Roots Unified II)
"In the Sengdeng palace, the supreme place of awe, from the ocean of unborn compassion, emerald in color, is a precious and beautiful woman, adorned with ornaments. Victorious mother Tārā, to you I bow and praise." སེང་ལྡེང་ཕོ་བྲང་འཇིགས་པའི་གནས་མཆོག་ཏུ། ། སྐྱེ་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་མཚོ་ལས་མརྒད་མདོག ། བུད་མེད་རིན་ཆེན་ཡིད་འོང་རྒྱན་ལྡན་མ། ། རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བསྟོད། །" --Garland of Utpala Flowers by 17th Karmapa (July 2025) Introduction Today,… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: “GARLAND OF UTPALA FLOWERS”. Daily Practice of Five-Deity Tārā (སྒྲོལ་མ་ལྷ་ལྔའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཨུཏྤལ་ཕྲེང་བ་)composed by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Three Roots Unified II)
NEW TRANSLATION: “Four-fold Mandala Offering Practice to Noble Tārā of the Karma Kagyu Tradition” by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Sections I and II): Origins, lineage and benefits
“Avalokiteśvara, looking upon the realms of sentient beings, saw that even though he had dedicated all his merit and primordial wisdom, and so forth, for the sake of all limitless sentient beings, and liberated them, those sentient beings had not entirely transcended samsara. From the tears that arose from the force of great compassion, many… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: “Four-fold Mandala Offering Practice to Noble Tārā of the Karma Kagyu Tradition” by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Sections I and II): Origins, lineage and benefits
THE FACE AND SOUNDS OF TĀRĀ: New music composition and video
For a Losar (Tibetan New Year) offering, here is a new music and video composition of the mantra and images of Noble Tār̥ā, a goddess deity in Tibetan Buddhism, with artworks of Green, Red, White Tara and the 21 Taras. Noble Tārā Mantra: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha. Seed syllable: TAM. The melody was composed… Continue reading THE FACE AND SOUNDS OF TĀRĀ: New music composition and video
GREEN TĀRĀ TEMPLE AND DRUGPA KAGYU IN BODH GAYA: Green Tārā statue and 21 Tārā temple, Drugpa Kagyu Ngawang Thubten Choling Zhabdrung Monastery and 2nd Drugpa Kagyu Monlam Chenmo (Bodh Gaya pilgrimage IV)
This new article is about my brief pilgrimage visit to the 'Green Ṭārā' Drugpa Kagyu monastery, in Bodh Gaya, India. I have been to Bodh Gaya several times now in this lifetime, and visited the main pilgrimage sites there to Bodhi Temple, Vulture's Peak, Rajgir and Mahakala Cave, the tree where Buddha was given yoghurt… Continue reading GREEN TĀRĀ TEMPLE AND DRUGPA KAGYU IN BODH GAYA: Green Tārā statue and 21 Tārā temple, Drugpa Kagyu Ngawang Thubten Choling Zhabdrung Monastery and 2nd Drugpa Kagyu Monlam Chenmo (Bodh Gaya pilgrimage IV)
“THE EYES OF TĀRĀ” BY JONANG AND RIMEY MASTER, NGAWANG LODRO DRAGPA: Dedicated to Karma Dendup and those with deteriorating sight
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."--Helen Keller "Good looks outshine good figures, Beautiful eyes outshine good looks, The beauty of soul outshines beautiful eyes." ---Naxi people proverb I am on the road solo travelling again to sacred, inspiring… Continue reading “THE EYES OF TĀRĀ” BY JONANG AND RIMEY MASTER, NGAWANG LODRO DRAGPA: Dedicated to Karma Dendup and those with deteriorating sight
PRAISES TO TĀRĀ! TWENTY-ONE TĀRĀ BLESSINGS IN BODH GAYA FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE. Empowerment by HH 14th Dalai Lama, introduction to the four main traditions of twenty-one Tārās and ‘The Explicit and Secret Aspects’ of Tārā commentary by Jetsun Tāranātha
Introduction As an offering for the Twenty-one Tarā (jenang) permission empowerment given today by HH 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (video here), in the place where Shakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment, (which I was fortunate to attend in person), I offer first a brief introduction to the four main traditions of the Twenty-One Tārās (two from… Continue reading PRAISES TO TĀRĀ! TWENTY-ONE TĀRĀ BLESSINGS IN BODH GAYA FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE. Empowerment by HH 14th Dalai Lama, introduction to the four main traditions of twenty-one Tārās and ‘The Explicit and Secret Aspects’ of Tārā commentary by Jetsun Tāranātha
GREEN TĀRĀ OF THE ACACIA FOREST (Sengdeng Nagki) AND THE FIVE-DEITY TĀRĀ MANDALA OF FIRST KARMAPA: Overview of Green Tārā origin and lineage and new translation of Five Deity Green Tārā short daily practice from 1st Karmapa’s ‘Five sets of Five’
"Many desire enlightenment in a man’s body, while not even a single [person] strives for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s body. Therefore, I shall work for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s form as long as saṃsāra has not been emptied."--Noble Tārā's statement (as Princess Jñānacandrā) to sexist monks "Generally,… Continue reading GREEN TĀRĀ OF THE ACACIA FOREST (Sengdeng Nagki) AND THE FIVE-DEITY TĀRĀ MANDALA OF FIRST KARMAPA: Overview of Green Tārā origin and lineage and new translation of Five Deity Green Tārā short daily practice from 1st Karmapa’s ‘Five sets of Five’
CHOD LINEAGES AND MACHIG LABDRON: Indic-Tibetan Sources, Contemporary Works, The Karmapas and ‘The Long Lineage Supplication to Machig” by Bengar Jampel Zangpo
Girl, expose your hidden faults, Trample down grudges, Lift up the powerless, Sever obscurations, Behold craving, Wander in scary places! Knowing that all beings are like space, In dangerous places, seek the Buddha within yourself. In the future, your teachings will be as bright as the sun rising in the sky! བུ་མོ་ཁྱོད་མཚང་ཡུལ་ནས་འདོན་། མི་ཕོད་པ་རྫིས་་མི་ནུབ་པ་བསྐུར་། འཁྲིབ་ཆོད་།་ཞེན་པ་མཐོང་། གཉནས་འགྲིམ་།སེམས་ཅན་ནམ་མཁའ་ལྟར་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས་ལ་།… Continue reading CHOD LINEAGES AND MACHIG LABDRON: Indic-Tibetan Sources, Contemporary Works, The Karmapas and ‘The Long Lineage Supplication to Machig” by Bengar Jampel Zangpo