The Cult of Tara

WORSHIP 195
You are our holy and glorious lords, masters of inconceivable
knowledge of knowing, compassion of loving, power of acting:
I pray you empower me, that I may not be led astray in the aims
for which I pray, that I may accomplish them from this moment
on:
I pray you: spread widely in all directions
the Three Jewels,
the Buddha and his precious teachings,
the three collections:
the Rules, the Discourses, the Philosophy;
let them remain long and undecayed.
I pray you: increase the Assembly of monks,
the receptacle of the teachings;
increase too in all of them
the twelve qualities
of keeping pure their moral conduct,
guarding it as the fruit of their eye.
I pray you: increase our strength of faith
in the thought of enlightenment,
the Great Vehicle, chief of teachings;
augment ever greater and undecayed
friendliness and compassion,
the two highest thoughts of enlightenment.
I pray you: let us keep ever pure and unstained
all the vows of the mantra, foundation of attainment
on the paths of growth and freedom
given in the rituals of the Tantras,
the collection of magical science,
the heart of the teachings.
I pray you: fill up the entire earth
with those who dwell at the gates
of any of the Conqueror's teachings,
with those alone who delight the Noble Ones
in the three studies, who apply themselves
to listening, to thinking, to contemplating.
I pray you: let no hindrance arise
to the holy ones who hold the teachings;
increase their lives and activities,
their advance of the aims of beings;
let them dwell in love and harmony,
ever to hear the sweet sound of the Law.