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a comic about space
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TO EVERYONE WHO FILLED OUT A SPACE YOUTH CADET FORM ❀
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origins
“According to Buddhist tradition, Tara was born out of the tears of compassion of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. It is said that he wept as he looked upon the world of suffering beings, and his tears formed a lake in which a lotus sprung up. When the lotus opened, the goddess Tara was revealed.
A similar tradition has White Tara born from the tears of Avalokiteshvara’s left eye and the Green Tara born from those of his right.” (x)
“Then at last Avalokiteshvara arrived at the summit of Marpori, the ‘Red Hill’, in Lhasa. Gazing out, he perceived that the lake on Otang ,…resembled the Hell of Ceaseless Torment. Myriads of being were undergoing the agonies of boiling, burning, hunger, thirst, yet they never perished, but let forth hideous cries of anguish all the while. When Avalokiteshvara saw this, tears sprang to his eyes. A teardrop from his right eye fell to the plain and became the reverend Bhrikuti, who declared: ‘Son of your race! As you are striving for the sake of sentient beings in the Land of Snows, intercede in their suffering, and I shall be your companion in this endeavour!’ Bhrikuti was then reabsorbed into Avalokiteshvara’s right eye… A teardrop from his left eye fell upon the plain and became the reverend Tara. She also declared, ‘Son of your race! As you are striving for the sake of sentient beings in the Land of Snows, intercede in their suffering, and I shall be your companion in this endeavour!’ Tara was also reabsorbed into Avalokiteshvara’s left eye…” (x)
