Green Tara

How to do the practice of Tara the liberator, our buddha potential in its future fully purified and evolved form.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

The food offering

We can develop the wisdom and method sides of the path by contemplating the causes…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Deluded thinking and labeling

There are three criteria to use to judge whether something exists conventionally, i.e., whether it…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Mutual dependence

Examining how things arise in mutual dependence on each other is another way of understanding…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Mutual dependence in generosity

Examples of mutual dependency: in an act of generosity, the agent, action, object and recipient…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Receiving praise: The bodhisattva vows

The benefit of praising others and how to receive praise in accordance with the Bodhisattva…

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Buddhist day of miracles

An explanation of what the Buddhist Day of Miracles is and how to observe it.

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Green Tara Winter Retreat 2009-2010

Rejoicing in the Tara retreat

Rejoicing in retreat and words of advice on taking what was learned during retreat into…

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Thangka image of 21 Taras
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Homage to the 21 Taras

An homage to Tara and chant recorded by the Sravasti Abbey monastics in 2010.

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Thangka image of Green Tara.
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Oh Tara, protect us

Tara the liberator shows us how to free ourselves from the eight dangers: ignorance, anger,…

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Face of a sculpture of Tara.
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Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers

An alternate text of the Green Tara sadhana including the Protection from the Eight Dangers…

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