The Cult of Tara

WORSHIP
The lord possessed of great compassion,
omniscient, the teacher,
the floor of the ocean of merit and qualities:
homage to the Tathagata !
Pure, the cause of freedom from lust,
saving from evil destinies with its virtue,
alone being the highest truth:
homage to the calming Law !
Themselves saved, showing the saving path,
devoted to the pure doctrine,
having all the qualities of holiness:
homage to the Assembly !
Then there is added a further homage to the Conquerors, their
dwelling places and their shrines, while each monk visualizes that he
and all beings, whom he emanates from himself in their ordinary
bodily forms, as numerous as the dust, prostrate toward them
together.
To all those who have incarnated themselves,
the famous perfect Buddhas,
possessed of the thirty-two most excellent signs:
homage to all the Conquerors!
Homage to where the perfect Buddha was born,
to where he touched enlightenment,
turned the wheel of peace
and passed away into reposeful nirvana.
I pay homage, too, to the places
where the Well-gone stayed,
where he arose and walked
and slept like a lion.
I pay homage to his shrines,
above, below, and upon the surface of the earth,
in the directions and intermediate directions,
whether they contain his relics or not.
These are the verses that were taught
by the Conqueror named Hard-to-Serve,
the holy personage who dwells
in the northeastern quarter;
and whoever praises the Tathagatas
with these four verses
will not fall into an evil destiny
for a hundred billion world eras.
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