When the lord avalokiteshvara looked down at the human world, he cried a single tear for all suffering and lost desires that ravaged his people.
He wept, the tear streaming down his face and forming a great pond. From the depths of its water sprang a blue lotus, and on the lotus appeared Tara: clad in the silks and jewels of a princess, but born with the mark of anguish inside her
Tara was cast out by her lord
...
Read full text