The Cult of Tara

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MAGIC AND RITUAL IN TIBET
I pray you: let all the doctrines of the Conqueror's teachings
exchange with one another
their pure individual lineages,
decrease their lust, hatred, jealousy,
be without controversy
to practice the path of highest freedom.
I pray you: let all beings impartially
attain to the great higher destiny
of devotion to the Conqueror's teachings;
let all the massed armies
of humans and nonhumans
make offerings to the teachings of the Buddha.
I pray you: let the humans and nonhumans
who delight in evil,
who are hard to tame,
who deal in black deeds,
helplessly gain a total devotion
to the teachings of the Buddha.
I pray you: let there never arise
in this land
the sorts of doctrines
of unfortunate deluded barbarians;
let all their massed armies
weaken and never advance.
I pray you: let there this instant not be
any who are set in sin,
who transform themselves
into various forms
to harm the best of the Buddha's teachings
or the best of those who hold them.
I pray you: consume especially all the hosts
who corrupt the Conqueror's teachings,
mislead those who hold them,
the deceiving Maras who teach as Law
what is not the Law to mislead those
who in good faith accept their doctrines.
I pray you: weaken those who corrupt
the long and stainless tradition of the Buddhas
with their impure defilements;
let there increase and spread everywhere
those who make perfect
the pure and stainless teachings of the Conqueror.