Two Mantras to Help Stop the Spread of Covid-19

Green Tara, photo by Dr. Hans-Günter Wagner, CC-BY-SA 2.0.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Eminence Kyabje Ling Rinpoche recommend reciting the Tara mantra to help stop the spread of Covid-19.

Tara mantra:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA 

Words of Advice

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama recommend reciting as many Tara mantras as possible.



Listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama recite the Tara mantra.

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA

His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche

His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche also recommended reciting the Tara mantra.

Official flyer circulated by His Eminence Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche's office.

Rinpoche also recommended reciting the Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra.

Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra:

OM PISHA TSI PARNA SHAWARI SARWA ZORA PRASHA MANAYE SOHA

The goddess Parnashavari, the Leaf-Clad Goddess, is associated with the healing of contagious disease according to Lotsawa House.

Rinpoche gave the oral transmission of the Leaf-Clad Goddess Mantra on January 28, 2020, at the Mahamuni Buddhist Centre in Taipei, Taiwan. Watch the last two minutes of this Facebook video, posted on February 12, 2020, to hear Rinpoche recite the mantra.

Join a Tara Mantra Online Practice Group

Geshe Ngawang Tenley

Geshe Ngawang Tenley, the FPMT resident geshe at Kurukulla Center in Medford, MA is leading a short (30 minutes) Tara practice beginning at 7:30PM ET every day of the week except Wednesdays.

Join the practice by visiting Geshe Tenley's Facebook page at 7:30 PM ET and looking for the livestream.

Tara practice with Geshe Tenley on Facebook live March 30, 2020.

If you would like to learn how to recite the prayer Praises to the 21 Taras in Tibetan then you can listen to a recording Geshe Tenley made to help people learn how to recite the prayer.