BOOKS

"In Praise of  Tara" Songs to the Saviouress, Source texts fron India and Tibet on Buddhism's Great Goddess. by Martin Willson, Wisdom Publications Boston, Mass.

"Tara, The Liberator" Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Wisdom Publications Boston, Mass.

"Cittamani Tara": An Extended Sadhana, Martin Willson, Wisdom Publications Boston, Mass.

"Longing for Darkness": Tara and the Black Madonna, by China Galland, Riverhead Books, New York, NY.

"Victory to the Mother":   The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol,  by Kathleen Erndl, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

 

CARDS

Tara CARDS from the Snow Lion Catalog   you can get from snowlionpub.com/cards.html

FILMS

Title Green Tara initiation London 11 April 1988 (02021560)
Produced 1988
Length 165:00 min
Language Tibetan
Series Buddhist teachings (0329)
Synopsis Recording of the Buddhist ceremony of the common initiation of the Green Tara, performed by the Dalai Lama; the ceremony is designed to grant the four empowerments in the form of a blessing.
Author Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho,
Notes Performed in Tibetan; with some English narration.
Subjects ASIA -- RELIGION; Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, -- Dalai Lama XIV, -- 1935-(A); Buddhism -- Rituals; Initiation rites -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Meridian Trust(A)

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"The Dalai Lama: Green Tara Initiation" Wisdom Publications Meridian Trust 241 E. 32nd St. 361 Newbury St. 330 Harrow Rd.New York, NY 10016 Boston. MA 02115 London W9 2HP(212) 213-5010  "The Dalai Lama: Green Tara Initiation" His Holiness performs the common initiation of Green Tara which grants the four empowerments in the form of a blessing. London,April 1988. 165 min. Wisdom Film.

"Radiating the Fruit of Truth." Film by Graham Coleman & David Lascelles.  At the Phulwary Sakya monastery, by the great stupa in Baudhanath, Nepal, the monks are preparing to perform a Buddhist ritual of protection. In it, the female deity Tara is invoked to pacify the kind of obstructions and disturbances which people encounter in this world: war,disease, madness, drought, a bad harvest, a long or dangerous journey, etc. The film follows the preparations, both spiritual and physical, for the ritual and shows its performance in detail,with the Tibetan text translated in subtitles. University of California at Berkeley, Extension Media Center,2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 642-0460

 

 

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