21 Taras Short Dharani 108 Times: for Illness, Danger, Disaster, Wish-Granting, Averting War

Tara taught the concise version of the 21 Praises to Tara, as a healing and protection method to the great Lord Atisha. When his life was threatened by disease she appeared to him and told he would be completely cured if he recited the 21 Taras Dharani 10,000 times (the 21 Praises to Tara).
Because Lord Atisha was so weak from illness, and desperate he asked for a condensed practice with equal result.
"ཅེས་བྱ་བ་འདི་ནི་མཉམ་མེད་ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་སྙེ་ཐང་དུ་བཞུགས་སྐབས་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བསྙུན་ནས་རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མར་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་ཚེ། རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཉི་མ་གཅིག་ལ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཁྲི་གཅིག་སྨིན་སྒྲུབ་བྱོས་ཞེས་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ན། ཇོ་བོ་རྗེས་ཉིན་གཅིག་ལ་མི་འབྱོར་བས་ཐབས་ཅི་ཞིག་འཚལ་ཞེས་ཞུས་པས། དེའི་ལན་དུ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ་འདི་ཉིད་རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མ་རང་གིས་དངོས་སུ་གསུངས་པས་བྱིན་རླབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན་ནོ།། །།
"When the incomparable Lord Atiśa was staying in Nyethang, he suddenly became quite ill. He supplicated Tārā and requested her intervention. The noble goddess appeared before him and told him that to cure his sickness he must recite the Praise to the Twenty-one Forms of Tārā at least ten-thousand times in a single day. Atiśa replied that it would be impossible for him to do so and asked if there weren't another way. Tārā replied by granting him this extremely concise praise; coming from Tārā herself, this praise is said to be highly blessed." (Lotsawa House)
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Lord Atisha was able to recite the shorter praise 10,000 times and was cured. The concise praise is effective even if chanted 3 times, 7 times, 27 times or 108 times as a daily practice, especially in the original Sanskrit language (as presented here.) In times of urgent need - disease, disaster, danger or economic disaster, any circumstance shortening our life (and therefore our Dharma activities) - it is best to continue accumulating daily until you reach at least 1000, and for supremely difficult or mortal circumstances, 10,000 times. It is also a complete practice of Tara’s praise in a concise, easy-to-remember chant. As a lifetime commitment, it is considered supremely powerful to accumulate 1 million recitations.
The concise Dharani to the 21 Taras, also known as the Praise of the Mantra, is only four short lines. It is most effective when chanted in original Sanskrit, which we present here in our chant. (The translated Tibetan versions are available online (text below), and the English version is below in this text.) Here, we chant the Concise Tara Praise Dharani 108 times. For people who are ill, or need protecton, of need fulfilment of wishes, it is recommended to chant at least 7 times, 21 times, 27 times, 108 times of 1008 times. In the case of Lord Atisha, who was in danger of his life, he chanted 10,000 times.
At the beginning of your session, you always chant the prostration praise to Tara once as we’ve done in this video. This is:
Om namo bhagavatyai
āryaśrī ekaviṃśati tārāyai
Then as many times as possible chant the concise mantra, ideally in original Sanskrit (as in the video) while visualizing (if possible) the 21 Taras. Each recitation of the four lines is, according to Tara's teaching (and our faith) the equivalent of the entire 21 Tara's praises:
namas tāre ture vīre
tuttāre bhayanāśini ture
sarvārthade tāre svāhā
kāre namo’stute
In English this is:
Homage to Tara the Swift and Courageous,
You drive away all our fears with TUTTARE,
Saviouress fulfilling all aims with TURE,
With syllables SVAHA, we offer homage.
You recite the initial prostration at least once:
ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
om jetsün pakma drolma la chaktsal lo
Oṃ. I submit obeisance to Tārā-she who is both exalted and revered.
then the praise continuously:
The praise in Tibetan is:
ཕྱག་འཚལ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཏཱ་རེ་དཔའ་མོ། །
chaktsal drolma taré pamo
ཏུཏྟཱ་ར་ཡིས་འཇིགས་ཀུན་སེལ་མ། །
tuttara yi jik kün selma
ཏུ་རེ་དོན་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟེར་མ། །
turé dön nam tamché ter ma
སྭཱ་ཧཱ་ཡི་གེར་བཅས་ལ་རབ་འདུད། །
soha yiger ché la rab dü
MUSIC: by Buddha Weekly, available as 21 Taras Short Dharani on your favorite music streaming platform such as KZbin Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and others.
In the video the visualization is courtesy of the amazing art of Lasha Mutual.
When pronouncing the Sanskrit, as we have here, when you see the letter ś this is pronounced more or less as in the English “sh”. The plain s is still pronounced as in “s” in English. The syllables are usually pronounced this way:
- “a” sounds like “ah”
- “i” syllables are pronounced as in in “ee”
- “e” is never silent at the end of a word (as in English) but is pronounced as in “eh”. For example Tare is prounouned “tah-reh”.
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Thank you Maa tara for accepting me in ur eternal lap ... ❤

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I listen to this chanting in 1900 miles from VA to Tampa, FL. And come back to the VA. Thank you

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Tara I beg you come for all of us

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We'll turnoff the midroll ads. Usually for mantra videos we do, but I probably forgot on this one. Too many settings in KZbin:-) Thank you for watching!🙏

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Praise to Tara and thank you for the video! 🙏 If I may, could I suggest doing a video on the wrathful deity Acalanatha's (Fudo Myoo in Japanese) mantra or the so-called Mantra of Light (Om amogha vairocana mahamudra mani padma jvala pravartaya hum) somewhere along the line? They're slightly different from the other material in this channel, but I want to see how you tackle them. Many blessings 🙏

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[@AAA-md5zd]

Hallo! Is this the short version of 21 Taras? Is that from Atisha? And...is one recitation of this version the same as one of the long version? Thanks!!

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Yes, it is transmitted directly from Tara to Lord Atisha. As Tara taught Atisha, with faith, this is the equivalent of the longer version, especially for people who are too weak, ill, or busy to chant the longer version. In each repetition you are praising the entire merit field of 21 Taras and especially praising her powerful mantra Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha. Lord Atisha cured himself of a deadly disease by chanting this short praise until he was healthy. ཅེས་བྱ་བ་འདི་ནི་མཉམ་མེད་ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་སྙེ་ཐང་དུ་བཞུགས་སྐབས་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བསྙུན་ནས་རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མར་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པའི་ཚེ། རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཉི་མ་གཅིག་ལ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཁྲི་གཅིག་སྨིན་སྒྲུབ་བྱོས་ཞེས་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ན། ཇོ་བོ་རྗེས་ཉིན་གཅིག་ལ་མི་འབྱོར་བས་ཐབས་ཅི་ཞིག་འཚལ་ཞེས་ཞུས་པས། དེའི་ལན་དུ་སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ་འདི་ཉིད་རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མ་རང་གིས་དངོས་སུ་གསུངས་པས་བྱིན་རླབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན་ནོ།། །། When the incomparable Lord Atiśa was staying in Nyethang, he suddenly became quite ill. He supplicated Tārā and requested her intervention. The noble goddess appeared before him and told him that to cure his sickness he must recite the Praise to the Twenty-one Forms of Tārā at least ten-thousand times in a single day. Atiśa replied that it would be impossible for him to do so and asked if there weren't another way. Tārā replied by granting him this extremely concise praise; coming from Tārā herself, this praise is said to be highly blessed. (Lotsawa House) You recite the initial prostration at least once: ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། om jetsün pakma drolma la chaktsal lo Oṃ. I submit obeisance to Tārā-she who is both exalted and revered. then the praise continuously: The praise in Tibetan is: ཕྱག་འཚལ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཏཱ་རེ་དཔའ་མོ། ། chaktsal drolma taré pamo ཏུཏྟཱ་ར་ཡིས་འཇིགས་ཀུན་སེལ་མ། ། tuttara yi jik kün selma ཏུ་རེ་དོན་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟེར་མ། ། turé dön nam tamché ter ma སྭཱ་ཧཱ་ཡི་གེར་བཅས་ལ་རབ་འདུད། ། soha yiger ché la rab dü

[@AAA-md5zd]

@@BuddhaWeekly thanks for your answer. From now i will recite this prayer in Tibetan or in Sanskrit like in the video, instead of the long version, being conscious that is the same as the long version with the same benefits. Really thanks 💕.

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Beautiful mantra

[@tsewangnamgail6219]

Chaktsal, Skab su chay Dolma 21 Khyan, 🙏🙏🙏💐🌹🌻🌷❤️

[@BuddhaWeekly]

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[@enochiandottoday9637]

Hello! I would like to purchase this, but did not find the song under this title. I did find the longer version as “21 Praises to Tara Chanted in Sanskrit.” Please let me know if this short dharani version will be available. If not, I will be satisfied with purchasing the other version.

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thank you. The short Dharani will be on the next album (Album 3) and so far is not a single. We try to do ten tracks per album, and currently have seven, with the others in recording. It should be within a matter of a few weeks. Sorry for the delay. In kindness, BW

[@enochiandottoday9637]

@@BuddhaWeekly ah, that makes sense. Thank you for the kind and quick reply!

[@learningtolearn4190]

1 . Can we chant from here on even without transmission ? 2 . Any lineage follower can chant this ? Sorry for bothering with questions but I am kind of afraid of any transgression

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Thanks for asking, always glad to try to answer. This is Tara, so there is no trangression for chanting her mantra or Dharani (which translates as a praise of the mantra). Empowerment is only required for yogas such as self-generation (visualizing yourself as Tara.) Chanting the 21 Taras Dharani, or Tara's mantra, making her offerings, visualizing them in front you, is not only fine, it's recommended. People working their fields, chant this Dharani. Babies are taught this mantra and Dharani (along with the Om Mani Padme Hum). So, to be clear -- no self-generation, but the chanting is perfectly fine and recommended, encouraged. This is Tara, who is the most all-embracing of Mothers. I do always suggest, if you have doubts, to check with your own teacher/lineage as rules vary, but the guideline on 21 Taras and Tara in general is there is no issue (other than self-visualizing yourself as Tara). Hope that helps. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha. By the way, the main requirement for ANY mantra is Bodhichitta. Without the Bodhichitta intention-- the wish to benefit all sentient beings -- it isn't a Mahayana practice, so that is always required for any mantra. In kindness, BW

[@108adidas]

What tradition is?

[@BuddhaWeekly]

Do you mean 21 Taras or the short Dharani. Both are Vajrayana tradition, and arise from Lord Atisha. Lord Atisha's teachings are found in many lineages of teachers. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW

[@user-pt6bk1pm1g]

Thank You very much Dear Dharma Friend!!! It sounds very nice and helpfull for me if I listen to it in speed 2. Really! It is so great! Thanks again!🤗🤗🤗😍🥰😇☺😘🙂❤🧡💛💚💙💖💜🤎🖤🤍❤🧡💛💚💙💝💜🤎🖤🤍💦🙏

[@namuun1465]

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[@ama6103]

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[@jeanchow6948]

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[@jeanchow6948]

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[@namuun1465]

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[@jeanchow6948]

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[@BuddhaWeekly]

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