Buddhist Legends
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The Legend Of The 8 Samurai / Deadly Buddhist Raiders List Price: $6.89 Sale Price: $0.01  |
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Region Free** THE LEGEND OF THE EIGHT SAMURAI (Running Time 53 Minutes) tells an ancient Japanese folk tale about a princess whose clan is destroyed by an army of phantom warriors. She rises from the dead and bands together with eight masterless samurai to defeat the ghostly swordsmen... |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Da Zhao Temple, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China from Mary Evans Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Photo Puzzle, Da Zhao Temple, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Part of the Da Zhao Temple (meaning Infinite Temple), a Buddhist monastery at Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, in the Peoples Republic of China. Hohhot is the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, serving as the regions administrative, economic, and cultural centre... |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Sun Hou Tzu from Mary Evans Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Photo Puzzle, SUN HOU TZU. The mischievous monkey fairy/ god, Sun Hou-Tzu, is born from a rock. The legend of the Journey to the West (Hsi Yu Chi) tells of his part in a quest for a Buddhist text. Chosen by Mary Evans... |
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Zen Shorts (Caldecott Honor Book) List Price: $17.99 Sale Price: $6.25 |
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Jon J Muth, author of the best-selling book, THE THREE QUESTIONS, has crafted another profound and winning picture book."Michael," said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales... |
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Seven Poems and Songs from Spirit Thorn List Price: $0.99 |
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These poems and songs are excerpted from the novel "Spirit Thorn, a Tale of Parallel Worlds." Zacharias O'Bryan invites you to be his guest in a world where music, life and the swirl of atomic particles are one... |
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I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told List Price: $18.99 Sale Price: $6.95 |
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A colorful introduction to Buddhist fablesA monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. The monkey is not alone. A lion, a jackal, a turtle, and a dove bicker in the cramped space, until a statue of Buddha comes to life... |
Tara Is The Star Who Saves
There is a very special deity known throughout Buddhism named Sgrol-ma, which means "she who saves". This savior goddess is most popular in the regions of Tibet , Mongolia and Nepal. She is known simply as Tara or "star" in the Sanskrit language.
Tara is the goddess of universal compassion, she is the representation of all virtuous, enlightened action. Her love for all living things is stronger than the love of a mother for her child. Tara protects us during our earthly travels, giving us longevity and stands guards us as we fumble our way through the spiritual journey to enlightenment.
Before the sixth century CE Tara was not known to Buddhists but she was very well known in Hinduism by another name, the goddess Parvati. When Buddhists discovered Tara they say she was born out of Avalokiteshvara, through her tears of compassion. As the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara wept for the world and its beings who endure suffering, her tears formed a lake. Inside this lake of tears grew a lotus and when the lotus opened the goddess Tara was inside! In another legend Tara was born from a blue light beam coming from one of Avalokiteshvara's eyes.
The body of Tara is envisioned in different colours, each colour symbolizes separate things. In some traditions it is said that White Tara, with her lotus in full bloom, symbolizes the day, and was born from the tears of Avalokiteshvara's left eye. Green Tara with her half-open lotus, represents the night, and came from the tears of Avalokiteshvara's right eye. Green Tara is the embodiment of virtuous activity, White Tara symbolizes the immense compassion of the goddess who labors day and night to relieve suffering.
In Tibet,Every pious woman was believed to be an incarnation of Tara. She was associated with two wives of the first Buddhist king of Tibet, Srong-brtsan-sgam-po. The Buddhist kings wife from imperial China was known an incarnation of the White Tara, while the king's wife from Nepalese was an incarnation of the Green Tara. It is possible that the strong need to see both these pious women as incarnations of Tara was the reason Buddhists came up with the concept of green and white forms of this goddess.
About the Author
Janis resides in western Canada, among the mountains where she studies the Buddhist religion and practices reiki healing. Janis loves making Buddhist t-shirts, gifts and apparel to spread the knowledge of enlightenment. All of the images used on the products are hand drawn with high quality graphics and historical accuracy a priority. Visit her website at http://buddhistbackground.blogspot.com
