第十二偈：恒常放光 Twelfth Verse Eternally Radiating Light
Praise to Tāra! Crowned with sliver of moon,
all adornments blazing brightly.
Amitabha [infinite light] at matted topknot
eternally radiating bright, shining light.
礼赞度母！头冠一弯月，
一切庄严炽然明耀。
发髻中阿弥陀［无量光］，
恒放灿烂明亮光芒。
Sliver54 of moon means an ornament that is part moon. Also, all the other ornaments are blazing with radiant light. She is the one who vanquishes the arrogant conceit of one billion great lords of the nāgas55. Who sometimes manifests in the form of an ascetic hermit, with matted dreadlocked topknot, in the centre of which resides Tathāgata, Amitabha [Infinite Light].. The one who eternally, without interruption, radiates intense, bright light; this illuminating light making all luminously clear.
The hidden meaning is about that which is radiated above. The crowned with sliver of moon is the stabilised [white] bodhicitta at the top of the head. The matted topknot is the stabilised ‘shadow’ at the top of the head. Amitabha means the ‘red’ essential element. From these two, continually radiates intense bright light, means the white and red elements transform into the infinite chakra wheel of the empty-form mahamudrā mandala56.
隐义是关于上方所放射者。“头冠一弯月”，是安住头顶的［白］菩提心。发髻是安住头顶的“影”。阿弥陀意为“红”精华。“从二者恒常放射强烈明光”，意为白、红二界转成空色大手印曼荼罗的无量轮56。
本篇原注
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The Tibetan term, dum bu means ‘part of the moon’ said to be on the 8th or 9th day of the lunar month, the energy of the moon is said to be cooling then.
藏文 dum bu 意为“月的一部分”，据说是指阴历初八或初九的月相；据说那时月亮的能量具有清凉性。
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The Tibetan word is phyag bdag chen po.
藏文词为 phyag bdag chen po。
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This sentence here means that when the red element is brought up to reside with the white element, the great bliss empty-form is realised (stong gzugs phyag rgya chen po’i dkyil ‘khor gyi ‘khor lo mtha’ yas par gyur pa’o//).
这里这句话的意思是：将红界向上引至与白界同住时，便证得大乐空色（stong gzugs phyag rgya chen po’i dkyil ‘khor gyi ‘khor lo mtha’ yas par gyur pa’o//）。