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སྒྲོལ་མ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཏཱ་ར།

  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tA ra
  • tārā
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Publications: 15
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

Female bodhisattva of compassion; the chief goddess of the activity family, personifying the true nature of the element wind; one of the five goddesses personifying the five “hooks of gnosis.”

Translation by James Gentry
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

The Buddhist goddess of compassion.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

Lit. “the Saviouress.”

Translation by Stefan Mang · Peter Woods
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A deity (lit. “Deliverer”) known for giving protection. She is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

Female bodhisattva of compassion; also one of the vidyārājñīs dwelling with Śākyamuni in the realm of the Pure Abode.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • ཏཱ་ར།
  • sgrol ma
  • tA ra
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

The Buddhist goddess of compassion.

Translation by Stefan Mang · Lowell Cook
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A goddess whose name can be translated as “Savior.” She is known for giving protection and is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Laura Dainty · Khenpo Tsöndrü Sangpo
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A goddess (lit. “Savior”) known for giving protection. She is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Roger Espel Llima · Alex Yiannopoulos · Lowell Cook · Ryan Conlon
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

Lit. “Savior.” Though often described as a goddess known for giving protection, she is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Stefan Mang
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A goddess whose name can be translated as “Savior.” She is known for giving protection and is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Stefan Mang
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A goddess whose name can be translated as “Savior.” She is known for giving protection and is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Stefan Mang · Peter Woods
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A goddess (lit. “Savior”) known for giving protection. She is variously presented in Buddhist literature as a great bodhisattva or a fully awakened buddha.

Translation by Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Erin Sperry
  • Tārā
  • སྒྲོལ་མ།
  • sgrol ma
  • tārā
Definition in this text:

A vidyā queen (vidyārājñī), Tārā is more generally regarded as a deity from the Buddhist pantheon known for bestowing her protection.