Talk:Tara (Buddhism)

message: I'm not a Tibetan Buddhist, so this may need some clarification and correction (there were certainly signs of incomplete familiarity with the subject in the article I edited). The Taras are very much background figures in all of the Buddhist schools I've practiced with. Feel free to let me know what you changed if you find that it needs correction, as I am always learning. HyperZonk 19:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
The first picture on the main page is not Green Tara (it's mislabeled)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.47.120 (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you and will swap the first two images for now. Some attention needs to be given to image placement on this article. Yworo (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tara is not just Tibetan 

message: I notice all my additions to the article have been deleted. None of it was copied from other web sites. I have a Master Degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University 1997, and the article was written after months of research as a paper for that program. I may be a newbie to wickipedia, but i am astonished to see a whole article wiped out by someone else just on the claim that I copied it from other web sites. This is not true.
There are certain facts about Tara, that are common knowledge to anyone who had studied Tibetan Buddhism. You can say Tara is a Bodhisattva of compassion in so may ways but that does not mean you are copying from other web sites. Jlpinkme.
:I have switched it back. Sorry about that. --Hottentot
I have done some minor editing; spacing, linking, etc., and plan to do more. Kind regards, 'Twisturbed Tachyon 05:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing content 

message: I'm sure this article is very informative to people with basic knowledge of Budahisum, but can someone please make this article easier to understand for us ignorant? I got lost after the third section. --Banana04131 23:07, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikify please

message: I've redirected Ekajati here as technically she's a form of Tara and she is mentioned in the article, but she probably deserves her own article. If you want to start one, just replace the redirect. Ekajati 04:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, I've started it myself. If you have info, please contribute! :-) Ekajati 08:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ekajati 

message: *I'm a Theravada Buddhist. Is Tara the mother of The Blessed One Lord Buddha? I'm not sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
: Perhaps to clarify a bit, Tara is often called 'mother of the Buddhas', because in Vajrayana, the female buddhas represent wisdom. As wisdom is the most important cause of buddhahood, many female buddhas are called 'mother of the buddhas' in the tantric texts. By the way, tantric texts should rarely be taken literally, as they usually refer to a deep underlying symbolism which is not easy to understand for the uninitiated. rudy 12:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry? Buddhism has many gods and goddesses - how else would you call the inhabitants of heavens; the conventional English translation for deva is god.. However, Tara is one of better known of the many Buddhas in Vajrayana. rudy 01:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Maybe you are not familiar with mahayana or vajrayana Buddhism? Buddhism has no creator-God, but there are two types of beings who are often translated as god or goddess: one is the devas (beings in samsara, but in a much more comfortable situation then humans), the other one is high Bodhisattvas or Buddhas are sometimes translated as god/goddess. This are all very different concepts then the creator God (note the capital) of the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition. rudy 12:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Mahayana Buddhism has Goddesses - Bodhisattvas and Yidams. I'm not familiar enough with Theravadan Buddhism to say. It could be argued that Devas are Gods too. This belongs on God_in_Buddhism and not here. Secretlondon (talk) 20:14, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother of compassion 

message: In the section "Tara as a Tantric deity" it reads that the terma of the Red Tara practice was rediscovered in our century (obviously the 20th century is meant) by the lama Apong Terton. Apong Terton then is supposed to have been reborn as Sakya Trizin. The current Sakya Trizin was born in 1945, which leaves a question about when Apong Terton actually lived? __meco 22:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puzzling about Red Tara practice 

message: Tara is a bodhisattva not a Buddha. This article reads as though they are the same thing. Secretlondon 04:42, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Do you have time to do the corrections? (If not I will try to find time soon - but I am truly very busy at the moment). They would be much appreciated. Cheers, John Hill 06:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It might be caused by the question whether Avalokiteshvara is a Buddha or Bodhisattva ? (see that article - and please bring some citations...). --211.132.52.211 02:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

text: We need to discuss this in the article. I've found some sources that say she is both. Secretlondon (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Buddha or Bodhisattva?

message: So should we move this page to "Tārā (Buddhism)" at this point? - Owlmonkey (talk) 01:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename? 

message: Many women have been enlightened, but their presence/achievement have often been obliterated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.225.70.121 (talk) 00:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many Female Buddhas have existed 

message: Is the correct name Tara or Taaraa? The version with short vowels is usually translated as either to carry over or liberator.  Here is an easy to use, but perhaps not scholastic on-line dictionary entry: http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&tinput=tara&country_ID=&trans=Translate&direction=SE and http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&tinput=star&country_ID=&trans=Translate&direction=ES
65.78.143.25 (talk) 03:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  question on the Sanskrit -  

message: These statements show a clear lack of knowledge about Indian and Chinese Buddhism in their early stages. For one, male and female devas have always been a part of Buddhist cosmology and appear in the earliest stratum of Buddhist texts including the Pali Canon and the Agamas of the early Buddhist schools. This is basic Buddhism that anyone should know, that there are many realms of heavens in Buddhist cosmology, that are inhabited by male and female deities (devas) who appear in the early scriptures.
Second, the 2nd century CE Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra translation mentioned in the passage above has no reference whatsoever to Prajnaparamita as a personified goddess, only to Prajnaparamita as one of the Six Paramitas and the central Paramita for the practice of the Bodhisattva Path.
Third, Mahayana was not becoming the dominant school of thought in Indian Buddhism or in Chinese Buddhism in the 2nd century CE. On the contrary, all scholars in the field acknowledge that Mahayana was a smaller movement in India at this time, and that Chinese Buddhism did not distinguish Hinayana from Mahayana until some time after. The Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra translation that is being touted as corresponding with the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism as the dominant doctrine, was in fact part of the first stratum of Buddhist texts ever translated into Chinese, and Buddhism was not even really established in the country before this.
This material is very strange and out of touch with basic facts of Buddhism. Tengu800 (talk) 21:07, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existence of gods and goddesses in early Buddhism 

message: The Czars of the Romanov Dynasty and Medvedev were recognized as reincarnations of the White Tara by the Buryats.
Czars
http://books.google.com/books?id=MqXnOBX4dREC&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=rdSnsngNLUsC&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=OTFjMoAUfcgC&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=zCdoje8i8NMC&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=p4NJbN1BDzoC&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=9aNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=jqRDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=8aanmN8DXIcC&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=gPRnyfM4WMMC&pg=PA418#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=SwX7ifWyI_QC&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssv-GONnxTsC&pg=PA237#v=onepage&q&f=false
Medvedev
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/6098619/President-Medvedev-is-a-Buddhist-goddess.html
http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/White-Tara-Medvedev-Pledges-Cash.aspx
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/381174.htm
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/381174.html
http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=11823
http://www.zimbio.com/Russia/articles/6PEYU80_tmB/White+Tara+Medvedev+Pledges+Cash
http://trueslant.com/joshuakucera/2009/08/26/medvedev-a-buddhist-deity/
http://chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=Buddhism_in_the_Russian_Republic_of_Buryatia%3A_History_and_Contemporary_Developments_by_Rustam_Sabirov
http://sarr.emory.edu/MAS/MAS_Chap19_Sabirov.pdf
23:41, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czar and Medvedev as White Tara