Mantra of White Tara
ཨོཾ་ཏཱ་རེ་ཏུཏྟ་རེ་ཏུ་རེ་མམ་ཨཱ་ཡུརྤུཎྱེ་ཛྙཱ་ན་པུཥྚིཾ་ཀུ་རུ་ཡེ་སྭཧཱ།
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MAMA AYUR PUNYE JNANA PUSHTIM KURU YE SVAHA
(White Tara helps us to fulfill our wishes, but her practice is mainly for longevity and helping people to achieve a long life. Her practice is good for those who are close to death and need to extend their lives.)
The Symbolism of White Tara
White Tara differs from Green Tara, besides the difference in color, she has seven eyes. Three are on the face, two on her palms, two on the soles of her feet, and she sits in the vajra posture. The symbolism of these particularities is as follows:
• White color: absence of the two veils (conflicting emotions and dualistic knowledge).
• Seven eyes: She sees reality through the three doors of liberation (emptiness, absence of characteristics, absence of wishes) and generates compassion by means of the four unlimited qualities of the bodhisattvas (love, compassion, joy, and equanimity).