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Title: The mother of Bodhisatta, A detailed research on goddess Tārā.
Authors: Opatha Samitha Thero.
Keywords: Bodhistta
Goddesses
Goddess tārā
Harita tārā
Shveta tārā
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: International Conference on Sanskrit Studies, 2017 Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
Citation: Opatha Samitha Thero (2017). The mother of Bodhisatta, A detailed research on goddess Tārā. International Conference on Sanskrit Studies, 2017 Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p.61.
Abstract: In ancient vedicear the divinity was imposed for many natural objects.under these circumstances vedic people were unintentionally stimulated to worship Goddess aport from gods.It can be understood by discovering the Rigvedha that those people were bent to worship gods daily to prevent from sorrows and obstacles.wben the goddesses were numerically increased powerful Gods introduced them as their wires.underthis concept it came to.society as saraswathi was the wif of Brahma and Lakshmi was the wif of Vishnu.The Buddhism which was developed under this situation was divided as Hinayãnaand mahāyāna.TheBodhisatthacancepts and deliefs of Mahãyãna were well renowned which were developed with the Indian culture.special effort was extended by tantrayāna for that. As a result of that Goddesses tārā, sundā, vasudhārā, Marīchi, Mahāmayuri and etc were created via tantrayāna.The chief among the Bodhisatta goddesses is tārā.she was called as tārā by the meaning of sending people towards the Enlightenment .people in Nepal and Tibet were utterly stimulated to worship the Goddess tārā.The main target of this research is to discover properly via Mahāyāna sutras about Bodhisatta Goddesses and Goddess tārā who were developed through the Tantrayāna .
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/18278
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