White Tārā from Atiśa's Tradition

White Tārā, courtesy of Chorten Dodrupchen

The White Tārā practice of the Longchen Nyingtik—the White Tārā Wish-Fulfilling Wheel, draws on three lineage streams: the long kama lineage of Atiśa's tradition, the close terma lineage of Chöjé Lingpa (1682–1720), and the extremely close lineage of Jigme Lingpa's direct visionary blessing from Tārā herself. Jigme Lingpa composed the root sādhana, while his disciple Ratön Ngawang Tendzin Dorje authored the empowerment. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo later composed many further texts and compiled the entire cycle, adding a set of activity practices.



 

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Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read translations in this section are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading these texts or for sharing them with others—and hence the consequences—lies in the hands of readers.

Practice Texts

The Cycle for Accomplishing the One Maṇḍala of White Tārā from Atiśa's Tradition Together with Various Activities (ཇོ་ལུགས་སྒྲོལ་དཀར་མཎྜལ་གཅིག་པའི་སྒྲུབ་སྐོར་ལས་ཚོགས་དང་བཅས་པ་), compiled by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

  • Jigme Lingpa, The Sādhana of White Tārā, Wish-Fulfilling Wheel

  • Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Torma Offering Between Sessions (ཐུན་མཚམས་སུ་གཏོར་མ་འབུལ་ན།)

  • Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Appendices to the Sādhana of White Tārā, Wish-Fulfilling Wheel (སྒྲོལ་དཀར་ཡིད་བཞིན་འཁོར་ལོའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཞུགས་སོ།)

  • Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Extremely Concise Fourfold Maṇḍala Offering Based on White Tārā (སྒྲོལ་མ་དཀར་མོ་ལ་བསྟེན་པའི་མཎྜལ་བཞི་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ།)

  • Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Supplementary Activities for White Tārā, Wish-Fulfilling Wheel (སྒྲོལ་དཀར་ཡིད་བཞིན་འཁོར་ལོའི་ལས་ཚོགས་ཉེར་མཁོ།)

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