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The fifth Tara is known as Wangdu Rigje Lhamo. She is Kurukulle in Sanskrit and Rigjema or Rigje Lhamo in Tibetan. Wangdu means power of "gathering, summoning," or "magnetizing." We can think of it as attracting everything beneficial, to benefit all beings. Rigjema means "she who precisely understands everything" and Lhamo is "divine lady." So she is known as the Tara who precisely understands the power of magnetizing.
Kurukulle's practice is very extensively taught throughout Tibetan Buddhism. She is often named the "Red Tara" because of her color. Her Praise is:
CHAG TSHAL TUT TA RA HUNG YI GE
Homage, Mother, filling all regions, sky, and the realm of desire
DO DANG CHOG DANG NAM KHA GANG MA
With the sounds of TUTTARA and HUNG,
*** TEN DUN PO ZHAB CHI NEN TE
Trampling the seven worlds with her feet,
LU PA ME PAR GUG PAR NU MA
Able to summon all before her.
--from Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on 'The Twenty-one Praises to Tara' by Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal, published by Snow Lion Publications
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