Chenrezig Soeldeb

Dedicated to the Water Protectors of Standing Rock and beyond, and to all those who stand for justice. May all inner and outer poisons be pacified!

ABOUT THE SONG:
Featuring the epic guitar of Ezra Landis and backing vocals of producer Ben Leinbach and myself, the whole song is infused with the powerful energy of the great female Buddha Tara in her wrathful form of Zhen Migyalwa'i Pamo. I call this Tara the "take no sh*t" Tara because she destroys all of our internal demons and maras. Her energy is fierce and the vibration of the mantra swiftly aligns us with what is good and right and true.
 The melody for this mantra came to me many years ago--during the time of the Standing Rock protests, when my sangha at Tara Mandala and I were accumulating this mantra in support of the Water Protectors. Careful listeners will hear Sangye Rinchen Lhamo singing "m'ni wichoni" ("Water is life!") in the background. 
We also brought in some Inuit throat singing and Mongolian throat singing to create a rhythm and a pulse for the listener to sink in to. I hope that people will benefit from using this track in their breathwork practices. 


LYRICS:

PHONETIC
chaktsal turé jikpa chenpö
dü kyi pawo nampar jom ma
chukyé shyal ni tronyer den dzé
drawo tamché malü sö ma

TIBETAN
ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཏུ་རེ་འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོས། །
བདུད་ཀྱི་དཔའ་བོ་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་མ། །
ཆུ་སྐྱེས་ཞལ་ནི་ཁྲོ་གཉེར་ལྡན་མཛད། །
དགྲ་བོ་ཐམས་ཅད་མ་ལུས་གསོད་མ། །

TRANSLATION:
Homage to Ture, the invincible woman,
Destroyer of the most powerful demons.
With a lotus-face and a deep-furrowed brow,
You are the slayer of each and every foe. 
 
8th TARA MANTRA:
Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Daha Paca Hūṃ Phaṭ Svāhā

Additional Lyrics:
OM AH HUM (wind mantras)
HUM (percussive mantras)
PHAT  (adlib mantras)

CREDITS:
Lee Harrington - lead vocals, backing vocals, breathwork, MIDI guzheng, melody, arrangement, audio engineer 

Ben Leinbach - producer, mixing engineer & general sound wizardry

Julie Last - audio engineer & epic vocal editing

Ezra Landis - Electric Guitars, acoustic guitars, octave mandolin

Khenpo Karma Tenkyong - Dungchen (Tibetan longhorn) & Gyangling (Tibetan oboe)

Monks of Tashi Lhunpo - Dung-Kar (conch) and Khangling (Tibetan thighbone trumpet)

Inuit & Mongolian Throat Singing - 
Karma Rinchen Lhamo, Lee Harrington; plus archival footage

Cover Art by Lee Harrington.  Photo of 8th Tara courtesy of Tara Mandala

THE MANTRA OF THE 8TH TARA (Invincible Woman) By Lee Mirabai Harrington

Lee Mirabai Harrington is a vocalist and mantrayana practitioner who sings mantras from the Tibetan Buddhist and Sowa Ripga traditions.

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