Daily Practice of Tara, Vajrasattva and Ushnisha Vijaya with Chanted Mantras for Protection, Purification and Long Life

Arising from the Ushnisha, Namgyalma, destroying the Lord of Death ; Tara, who liberates the fears of Samsara; Lord of All Families, Vajrasattva; I bow to the wonderful and supreme deities.

RECOMMENDED FOR LOSAR, LUNAR NEW YEAR, END OF MONTH PURIFICATION, and as a DAILY PRACTICE FOR MERIT, PROTECTION AND PURIFICATION. This short practice brings the protection, purification and wisdom of the Three Enlightened Supremes of Marpa’s lineage.

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Recitation

In the Three Supremes, Vajrasattva, Tara, and Ushnisha Vijaya, in the Three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma, and Supreme Assembly, in the Three Roots Guru, Yidam and Dakini, I take refuge until Enlightenment. By the merit of my generosity and other deeds, may I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings.

In the Three Supremes, Vajrasattva, Tara, and Ushnisha Vijaya, in the Three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma, and Supreme Assembly, in the Three Roots Guru, Yidam and Dakini, I take refuge until Enlightenment. By the merit of my generosity and other deeds, may I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings.

In the Three Supremes, Vajrasattva, Tara, and Ushnisha Vijaya, in the Three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma, and Supreme Assembly, in the Three Roots Guru, Yidam and Dakini, I take refuge until Enlightenment. By the merit of my generosity and other deeds, may I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all beings.

Instantly, The entire merit field appears before me.

Mantra Chanting:

VAJRASATTVA (1x)

oṃ

vajrasattva samayam anupālaya

vajrasattvatvenopatiṣṭha

dṛḍho me bhava

sutoṣyo me bhava

supoṣyo me bhava

anurakto me bhava

sarva siddhiṃ me prayaccha

sarvakarmasu ca me cittaṃ śreyaḥ kuru

hūṃ

ha ha ha ha hoḥ

bhagavan sarvatathāgatavajra mā me muñca

vajrī bhava mahāsamayasattva

āḥ

GREEN TARA MANTRA (7x)

om tare tuttare ture svaha

USHNISHA VIJAYA NAMGYELMA (7x)

om brum svaha om amrita ayur da dai svaha

I prostrate with complete purity to the Three Supremes, the Three Jewels and the Three Roots and all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who dwell in the ten directions and three times.

I offer real and imagined flowers, incense, butter lamps, scent, food, music, and so forth. Assembly of Three Supremes, please accept it.

I confess all my faults from beginningless time until now, committed with a mind under the sway of the afflictions, such as the ten nonvirtues.

I rejoice in whatever merit has been accumulated in the three times by Hearers, Solitary Realizers, Bodhisattvas, ordinary beings, and others.

Please turn the wheel of the Dharma according to the intentions and mental dispositions of sentient beings.

Until Samsara is emptied, please do not pass into Nirvana but look with compassion upon sentient beings that are drowning in the ocean of suffering.

May whatever merit I have accumulated become the cause of Enlightenment for the benefit of sentient beings.

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. May they not be separated from the sublime happiness that is free from suffering. May they rest in the great equanimity that is free of the duality of attachment and aversion.

Thus one gathers the accumulations through prostrating, offering, confessing, and generating the two types of bodhichitta of the preliminaries.

By the power of praising and supplicating you, wherever I and others reside may illness, obstructive spirits, poverty, and fighting be pacified, and may the Dharma and auspiciousness flourish.

Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and the Sangha, please heed me. From the great, beginningless Samsara, I and all beings have performed the virtue of cultivating generosity and ethical discipline and have rejoiced in the expression of these deeds. By the virtue practiced thus, with the mind of holy generosity, and for the sake of our parents, teachers, masters, and all sentient beings, may we achieve Buddhahood. By the merit arisen from this virtue, may we acquire all the perfections such as life, merit, enjoyment, a retinue, and virtuous practice, and may all obstacles be pacified without exception.

May I attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings.

We dedicate the merit of this presentation to the benefit of all sentient beings.